The article doesn't where they got one continuous strip of TP 13,000 feet long. Did they use multiple rolls attached together?
As far a standing on it's own, a small amount of glue every now and then should help with that.
A thousand page book on my self is about 3 inches thick. If the TP is half the thickness of book paper, their block should be about 12 inches talk, 18 inches long and as wide as the TP they used.
According to Issac Asimov, all good science fiction is actually detective fiction.
As a side note, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is Science Fiction. It's about the triumph of Victorian Science against Medieval Superstition. It's no accident that van Helsing is a medical Doctor and a professor.
True, but Google language tools can translate French, so why not ASL?
Anyway, I'm assuming that ASL is faster, and has less carpal tunnel risk than using a keyboard, so if you know ASL why shouldn't you be able to use it for computer input?
A device that could translate ASL into text could be very useful to people who know ASL, and a great training tool for those who don't.
This is like having a headline, "Exoskeleton lets paraplegics walk all day, just $5000", then when people click on it, saying "April Fools!"
On the other hand, if this inspires someone to create just such a product, then more power to them.
And if you spend too much time searching and searching for things that are extremely obscure in the prior art, you won't make production.
That sounds like the problem, right there. If I can approve a patent and move on and get 1 point, or search, search and search then deny a patent and get 1 point, guess how I'm going to play the game.
Patents should be for extraordinary stuff. Denying a patent should at least get you a party with cake and ice cream. (:-)
There should be bonuses for every successful search and denied patent.
If the Patent office relies on case law to deny patents, then that's another big problem. Most obvious stuff that people are doing and have been doing for centuries doesn't have a lot of case law, because it's FREAKING OBVIOUS.
Unlimited has always meant "You can do whatever you want with it, as long as we allow it." It has never meant, "You can use as much of it as you want". Well, at least not to the lawyers. To us regular folks, unlimited means without limit, where limit is any restriction or disallowance.
Aren't patents supposed to be for ideas that aren't obvious?
Hey, that's a pretty novel idea you've got there. Why not patent it? You can avoid the 'prior art' and 'obviousness' issues by simply checking the 'Super New Idea' and 'I Was First, Pinky Swear!' boxes on the patent application form.
You forgot "on the Internet".
All ideas are patentable if you add, "On the Internet" to them. It's like a game...
I like the joke, but as the amount of the transfer goes up, so does the risk. (The risk the money won't be repaid, or the risk the transaction is fraudulent) So, yes, it does cost more to send more money. Does it cost exactly what they charge? Not at all, they can charge what they can get away with.
Most people don't seem to get it. If you can send even a small amount of information back a short time, you can't have your Grandfather killed, but you can build a computer that can solve an infinite loop in constant time.
N != NP isn't important anymore. Your salesman can run *all* the paths around the cities and remember the shortest. Just about any encryption that isn't one time pad can be broken.
Ok, time to be even more pedant. (:-) Most patent trolls aren't in the business of making what they have patents on. If the MPAA could get the patent on "MoSEVvBM", they would.
If they're smart, they'll keep the ads hidden. Things like product placement, or offering to sell fans pieces of the set after production. (Yes, that's really happening. There are companies that provide movie companies dozens of identical items for filming, just so those items can be sold as having been on-screen in Movie XYZ.)
The vast majority of users don't infringe on copyright either, except when they can't get what they want.
I know I'd rather pay for a clean copy of something than hunt for it on pirate sites. Sometimes, what I want, just isn't available, like the original, unedited WKRP episodes on DVD.
The USA broke from England partially because the colonists wanted Jury Nullification. It's part of our founding principles. So, of course, the government is doing it's best to make sure it can't happen. Julian P. Heicklen was recently indicted for passing out pamphlets on New York courthouse steps. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?src=me
*Note. Passing out pamphlets is one way that our founding fathers started a revolution. So the government is doing its best to stop that too...
I'm sure they're just going to hold Mr. Heicklen as long as they can, rough him up, and release him. There's no way a real jury would convict him, unless they are gagged, ear-plugged, and blindfolded. (Or Blackmailed and paid off)
There always will be a problem with secret Military Patents. You invent something, and get a patent. There could be an identical patent that is classified. Once the secret is out, and the original patent is declassified, you could lose your patent because it was invented a decade before.
True fact. I was using a HeNe laser as a "Cat Exercise System" in '81 or '82, but after going to Purdue, I used it as a "Let's have Fun with the Drunks System".
From the towers of Cary Quad, I could get drunks to follow the spot and even run into trees.
RIght. Profit vs. Non-Profit all depends on where it money goes. If it goes to owners/investors it's for profit. If not, it might be non-profit.
There are many football/basketball coaches at "Public Non-Profit" schools that make more total compensation than most CEO's.
And which law specifically states 'Army PsyOps will not be used against U.S. Citizens.' Rolling Stones sure didn't provide a reference.
From the article:
Federal law forbids the military from practicing psy-ops on Americans, and each defense authorization bill comes with a "propaganda rider" that also prohibits such manipulation. "Everyone in the psy-ops, intel, and IO community knows you’re not supposed to target Americans," says a veteran member of another psy-ops team who has run operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It’s what you learn on day one."
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The article doesn't where they got one continuous strip of TP 13,000 feet long. Did they use multiple rolls attached together? As far a standing on it's own, a small amount of glue every now and then should help with that.
A thousand page book on my self is about 3 inches thick. If the TP is half the thickness of book paper, their block should be about 12 inches talk, 18 inches long and as wide as the TP they used.
According to Issac Asimov, all good science fiction is actually detective fiction.
As a side note, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is Science Fiction. It's about the triumph of Victorian Science against Medieval Superstition. It's no accident that van Helsing is a medical Doctor and a professor.
My dad had an uncle who woke up at his own funeral. The uncle lived several years after that. This would have been in Nova Scotia around the 1930's.
I think Saints Mathew, Mark, Luke and John beat Sir Doyle by at least 2 millennia. (I'm sure some Egyptians did it even earlier.)
It's called WOM, Write Only Memory, in this case with a small cache to improve performance. (:-)
True, but Google language tools can translate French, so why not ASL?
Anyway, I'm assuming that ASL is faster, and has less carpal tunnel risk than using a keyboard, so if you know ASL why shouldn't you be able to use it for computer input?
A device that could translate ASL into text could be very useful to people who know ASL, and a great training tool for those who don't.
This is like having a headline, "Exoskeleton lets paraplegics walk all day, just $5000", then when people click on it, saying "April Fools!"
On the other hand, if this inspires someone to create just such a product, then more power to them.
That's Arbitron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitron
Actually, it was TiVo (the bastards) that required the creation of GPLv3. (Not that I'm bitter.)
Yes, and your point is?
If you're running your own show, increased productivity means you can spend more of your time doing fun stuff, and less doing grunt work.
If someone else is paying you, increased productivity means that for a small expenditure, they can make more money.
What's not to like?
And if you spend too much time searching and searching for things that are extremely obscure in the prior art, you won't make production.
That sounds like the problem, right there. If I can approve a patent and move on and get 1 point, or search, search and search then deny a patent and get 1 point, guess how I'm going to play the game.
Patents should be for extraordinary stuff. Denying a patent should at least get you a party with cake and ice cream. (:-)
There should be bonuses for every successful search and denied patent.
If the Patent office relies on case law to deny patents, then that's another big problem. Most obvious stuff that people are doing and have been doing for centuries doesn't have a lot of case law, because it's FREAKING OBVIOUS.
Unlimited has always meant "You can do whatever you want with it, as long as we allow it." It has never meant, "You can use as much of it as you want". Well, at least not to the lawyers. To us regular folks, unlimited means without limit, where limit is any restriction or disallowance.
Aren't patents supposed to be for ideas that aren't obvious?
Hey, that's a pretty novel idea you've got there. Why not patent it? You can avoid the 'prior art' and 'obviousness' issues by simply checking the 'Super New Idea' and 'I Was First, Pinky Swear!' boxes on the patent application form.
You forgot "on the Internet".
All ideas are patentable if you add, "On the Internet" to them. It's like a game...
I like the joke, but as the amount of the transfer goes up, so does the risk. (The risk the money won't be repaid, or the risk the transaction is fraudulent) So, yes, it does cost more to send more money. Does it cost exactly what they charge? Not at all, they can charge what they can get away with.
Most people don't seem to get it. If you can send even a small amount of information back a short time, you can't have your Grandfather killed, but you can build a computer that can solve an infinite loop in constant time.
N != NP isn't important anymore. Your salesman can run *all* the paths around the cities and remember the shortest. Just about any encryption that isn't one time pad can be broken.
Ok, time to be even more pedant. (:-) Most patent trolls aren't in the business of making what they have patents on. If the MPAA could get the patent on "MoSEVvBM", they would.
If they're smart, they'll keep the ads hidden. Things like product placement, or offering to sell fans pieces of the set after production. (Yes, that's really happening. There are companies that provide movie companies dozens of identical items for filming, just so those items can be sold as having been on-screen in Movie XYZ.)
The vast majority of users don't infringe on copyright either, except when they can't get what they want.
I know I'd rather pay for a clean copy of something than hunt for it on pirate sites. Sometimes, what I want, just isn't available, like the original, unedited WKRP episodes on DVD.
On the other hand if you do cocaine, and have several DUIs, you can be elected President...
The USA broke from England partially because the colonists wanted Jury Nullification. It's part of our founding principles. So, of course, the government is doing it's best to make sure it can't happen. Julian P. Heicklen was recently indicted for passing out pamphlets on New York courthouse steps. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/nyregion/26jury.html?src=me
*Note. Passing out pamphlets is one way that our founding fathers started a revolution. So the government is doing its best to stop that too...
I'm sure they're just going to hold Mr. Heicklen as long as they can, rough him up, and release him. There's no way a real jury would convict him, unless they are gagged, ear-plugged, and blindfolded. (Or Blackmailed and paid off)
There always will be a problem with secret Military Patents. You invent something, and get a patent. There could be an identical patent that is classified. Once the secret is out, and the original patent is declassified, you could lose your patent because it was invented a decade before.
True fact. I was using a HeNe laser as a "Cat Exercise System" in '81 or '82, but after going to Purdue, I used it as a "Let's have Fun with the Drunks System".
From the towers of Cary Quad, I could get drunks to follow the spot and even run into trees.
RIght. Profit vs. Non-Profit all depends on where it money goes. If it goes to owners/investors it's for profit. If not, it might be non-profit.
There are many football/basketball coaches at "Public Non-Profit" schools that make more total compensation than most CEO's.
In private companies, things are different, because the owner cares of what the heck is going on in his/her company,
Yes, and no. There's a stereotype of the owner hiring his kid, or nephew and giving that kid more responsibility than is warranted.
In any business, the decision maker's ego trumps all other considerations. This is why most small businesses fail, and large ones fail spectacularly.
And which law specifically states 'Army PsyOps will not be used against U.S. Citizens.' Rolling Stones sure didn't provide a reference.
From the article:
Federal law forbids the military from practicing psy-ops on Americans, and each defense authorization bill comes with a "propaganda rider" that also prohibits such manipulation. "Everyone in the psy-ops, intel, and IO community knows you’re not supposed to target Americans," says a veteran member of another psy-ops team who has run operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It’s what you learn on day one."