It Can't run out on a living author if the author still owns it.
It's Life +95 years, or 120 years for a work for hire/psuedonomous/anonymous work.
It's only been this way for a short time, but the U.S. had to bring their copyright terms in line with that of Europe after oining the Berne Convention, otherwise U.S. works would receive less protection in the other countries.
Ken is a Jeopardy producer's wet dream. I imagine weeks before he lost, Trebek, et al. were trying to figure out how to wring more rating from the lowly Mormon kid.
They might as well just write him the check and have him dress up in a monkey outfit and dance around on stage for a couple of hours.
Maybe they could rip off Ben Stein and create a pilot for "Win Ken Jenning's Money". Oh, and make it for more than $3K a show.
I grew up in west Texas (Midland/Odessa, Friday Night Lights land), Lived in Dallas for 15 years, and have family in Houston. West Texas Sucks.
Period.
It's flat, and it's like the Dust Bowl never ended. There's a city called No Trees out there for a reason. The nearest body of water was 2 hours away in San Angelo. THe only thing nearly nice out there is Big Bend, and it's a 10 hour drive away from anything.
If you live in Houston, head out to East texas, around Tyler, it's pretty nice.
If you're calling it NTSU, it's been a while since you were in college. I went to UNT (as it's been called since 1988) from 91-94, and there were pretty much no restrictions on visitors of the opposite sex. Additionally, neither SMU or UNT is a Mormon school.
Funny, you can't have members of the opposite sex in a BYU dormitory bedroom.
And all the students at BYU have to sign the Honor code, part of which is a promise to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, etc. Another part of the honor code is abstaining from extra-marital sex.
I realize that everyone breaks the rules in college, but do you think someone like KenJen is going to risk being kicked out of school for this?
This is one of the lamest, most oversimplified explanations I've seen in a long time. I think I read this in high school physics.
For example, sand is not melted in a quartz bucket to make an ingot. Sand is Si02, or quartz. THe bucket would melt, and you;'d have an ingot full of Si and 02. Sand is made into gaseous silcon, called silane gas, which is then allowed to crystallize into a solid, chunks of which are melted in a quartz bucket.
I quit after programming 7 1/2 years and now go to law school.
By the way, Lexis is definitely better than westlaw.
Ever thought of a tool that when you enter a citation, you set an optionnto get that case and all the cases it references, and all the cases they reference, in like a tree mode with the short summary? Maybe some option to set how many levels deep it goes?
Also, how about an easier way to copy the deep link to cases for when you're doing research?
I hate when non-techs try to give me programming advice, but I was just wondering what your thoughts on a deep search tool like that would be. I've been considering writing a bot to do it myself, but didn't want to get too hooked to my free student account.
Wouldn't he have to do somethng he could be sued for before he had a lawsuit on his hands? Denying someone housing or equal job protection because if their sex is against the law, being a sexist isn't. And before you go on about civil rights, only the government can intrude on your civil rights.
the idea is to put something heavy (high mass actually) on the end. In Kim stanley Robinson's books, it was an asteroid. There is a distance frm the surface of the earth where something like a satellite will stay at the same altituse while staying stationary relative to a point on the earth. This is where the pull of gravity equals the centrifugal force (or centripetal acceleration). Make the space elevator much taller, and get the pace end moving fast enough to keep up with the stationary point on earth where it's anchored, and you're set. Just like swinging a bucket on the end of a string.
I think we can all agree that, being a minor party, the Libertarians run little risk of getting any of the electoral vote. If that's the case, why do you run? I'm honestly curious, is it to educate voters, try to expand the two party system? Is it even to simply voice your views? Or is this merely the first step in total world domination?
Nader seems to have gotten away from doing what would be best for the country, and made his Independent Party bid an ego thing.
I agree that our current system of governance sucks, but the system was built so that things changed slowly, so that one person, pressident, or session of congress couldn't radically change America. Do you propose making incremental changes from the inside, or are you hoping for dissatisfaction with the current system to foster whole scale change in American politics?
The school leased a large parcel of undeveloped land to an aparment company. The Apartment folks built aprtment buildings there, and manage them. They're regular apartments, but they reside on land owned by the school, so the apartment management co. works with the school. There's something like 8 phases, with a total of 1200 aprtments. You have a lease, and my roommate had to have a cosigner. YOu have to get your own cable, electricity, and phone, just like in any other apartment. You do have to be a student to live there, the rent is pretty cheap, and it's right across the street from the engineering building.
I think that after 20 years or something like that, the apartment buildings revert to owership of the university, after the land lease is up.
No. Patents used to last 17 years from the date of issue. In 1996, this was changed to 20 years from the Application date to fix the submaringe patent problem.
An applicant gets the benefit of the the earliest aplication if later patents granted are a continuation of the earlier patents. THis is supposed to be an incentive to file early, with as much information as possible.
If you look at the sheer volume of prior art, it looks like the applicant and the USPTO went round and round on this one. The PTO probably got tired of hearing from the applant and just granted the patent.
because if the state joins in, the state will pay for and handle the case, and the two who started it won't have to do much. If this happens, they'll only get 20% by the way. They'll get 30% if they handle the case themselves and win though...
I agree that software patens are a bad idea, but I would lik to point a few things out.
It takes longer now to get patents than it did before the late 80s and early 90's, mostly because of the backlog. (About 4 years now if there are no rejections, vs 2 years or less previously.)
part of the reason patents are examined so poorly are that no one besides the dregs of the tech industry wants to work for the government. There's a whole lot of non-native english speakers working in the PTO as examiners.
Software wasn't officially patentable, with repect to algorithms, until about 1998. THe PTO had for a long time banned the patenting of "Mathematical formulae". The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in State St. Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Fin. Group, 149 F.3d 1368 that math algorithms were no patentable but mathematical algorithms which were reduced to some type of practical application with a useful concrete result were. The court found that the patent in question fell within this category, which rendered it statutory subject matter, even though the useful result was expressed in numbers, such as price, profit, percentage, cost, or loss.
As far as business methods go, The Business Method Patent Improvement Act of 2000 was drafted to addres some of the problems where people would patent a widely used normally non-computer business method on a computer as novel.
Taxpayers won't have a whole lot to say. The PTO is one of the only government offices that brings in more money than it spends. Yes, they're operating at a surplus. The excess goes into the general accounting fund.
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Japan was the only country to bomb Pearl Harbor. Maybe if we bombed Pearl Harbor ourselves, we'd all lose weight?
How 'bout if we nuked ourselves (twice). Would we all miraculously lose weight?
It Can't run out on a living author if the author still owns it.
It's Life +95 years, or 120 years for a work for hire/psuedonomous/anonymous work.
It's only been this way for a short time, but the U.S. had to bring their copyright terms in line with that of Europe after oining the Berne Convention, otherwise U.S. works would receive less protection in the other countries.
Seems to be more of a standard than .wmv. And every player seems to support .MPG files.
And the AOL marketing team got there before the Rover.
I think AOL started shipping their coasters in the little metal cases after some of their martian junkmail CDs failed to survive amospheric entry.
And 599,999 of 'em are on my server YELLING FOR DIRECTIONS or asking for a "loan".
Ken is a Jeopardy producer's wet dream. I imagine weeks before he lost, Trebek, et al. were trying to figure out how to wring more rating from the lowly Mormon kid.
They might as well just write him the check and have him dress up in a monkey outfit and dance around on stage for a couple of hours.
Maybe they could rip off Ben Stein and create a pilot for "Win Ken Jenning's Money". Oh, and make it for more than $3K a show.
I grew up in west Texas (Midland/Odessa, Friday Night Lights land), Lived in Dallas for 15 years, and have family in Houston. West Texas Sucks.
Period.
It's flat, and it's like the Dust Bowl never ended. There's a city called No Trees out there for a reason. The nearest body of water was 2 hours away in San Angelo. THe only thing nearly nice out there is Big Bend, and it's a 10 hour drive away from anything.
If you live in Houston, head out to East texas, around Tyler, it's pretty nice.
I think even McDonalds would think twice about hiring them:
Manager: "So do you have any customer service experience?"
AOL Scab: "Well, I worked tech support at AOL for 2 years."
Manager: "We only hire people who will fuck up small stuff. We can't handle AOL sized crap here"
If you're calling it NTSU, it's been a while since you were in college. I went to UNT (as it's been called since 1988) from 91-94, and there were pretty much no restrictions on visitors of the opposite sex. Additionally, neither SMU or UNT is a Mormon school.
Funny, you can't have members of the opposite sex in a BYU dormitory bedroom.
And all the students at BYU have to sign the Honor code, part of which is a promise to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, etc. Another part of the honor code is abstaining from extra-marital sex.
I realize that everyone breaks the rules in college, but do you think someone like KenJen is going to risk being kicked out of school for this?
You clearly don't know any mormons.
This is one of the lamest, most oversimplified explanations I've seen in a long time. I think I read this in high school physics.
For example, sand is not melted in a quartz bucket to make an ingot. Sand is Si02, or quartz. THe bucket would melt, and you;'d have an ingot full of Si and 02. Sand is made into gaseous silcon, called silane gas, which is then allowed to crystallize into a solid, chunks of which are melted in a quartz bucket.
I quit after programming 7 1/2 years and now go to law school.
By the way, Lexis is definitely better than westlaw.
Ever thought of a tool that when you enter a citation, you set an optionnto get that case and all the cases it references, and all the cases they reference, in like a tree mode with the short summary? Maybe some option to set how many levels deep it goes?
Also, how about an easier way to copy the deep link to cases for when you're doing research?
I hate when non-techs try to give me programming advice, but I was just wondering what your thoughts on a deep search tool like that would be. I've been considering writing a bot to do it myself, but didn't want to get too hooked to my free student account.
Wouldn't he have to do somethng he could be sued for before he had a lawsuit on his hands? Denying someone housing or equal job protection because if their sex is against the law, being a sexist isn't. And before you go on about civil rights, only the government can intrude on your civil rights.
Instead of ruining the experience for everyone else, why not just try reigning in that raging ADD before someone invents the Retard-Be-Gone
the idea is to put something heavy (high mass actually) on the end. In Kim stanley Robinson's books, it was an asteroid. There is a distance frm the surface of the earth where something like a satellite will stay at the same altituse while staying stationary relative to a point on the earth. This is where the pull of gravity equals the centrifugal force (or centripetal acceleration). Make the space elevator much taller, and get the pace end moving fast enough to keep up with the stationary point on earth where it's anchored, and you're set. Just like swinging a bucket on the end of a string.
I think we can all agree that, being a minor party, the Libertarians run little risk of getting any of the electoral vote. If that's the case, why do you run? I'm honestly curious, is it to educate voters, try to expand the two party system? Is it even to simply voice your views? Or is this merely the first step in total world domination?
Nader seems to have gotten away from doing what would be best for the country, and made his Independent Party bid an ego thing.
I agree that our current system of governance sucks, but the system was built so that things changed slowly, so that one person, pressident, or session of congress couldn't radically change America. Do you propose making incremental changes from the inside, or are you hoping for dissatisfaction with the current system to foster whole scale change in American politics?
Got my BSEE from UT Dallas
The school leased a large parcel of undeveloped land to an aparment company. The Apartment folks built aprtment buildings there, and manage them. They're regular apartments, but they reside on land owned by the school, so the apartment management co. works with the school. There's something like 8 phases, with a total of 1200 aprtments. You have a lease, and my roommate had to have a cosigner. YOu have to get your own cable, electricity, and phone, just like in any other apartment. You do have to be a student to live there, the rent is pretty cheap, and it's right across the street from the engineering building.
I think that after 20 years or something like that, the apartment buildings revert to owership of the university, after the land lease is up.
Multiplayer sucks. bad.
Don't they become lower end phones when you lower the price?
No. Patents used to last 17 years from the date of issue. In 1996, this was changed to 20 years from the Application date to fix the submaringe patent problem.
An applicant gets the benefit of the the earliest aplication if later patents granted are a continuation of the earlier patents. THis is supposed to be an incentive to file early, with as much information as possible.
If you look at the sheer volume of prior art, it looks like the applicant and the USPTO went round and round on this one. The PTO probably got tired of hearing from the applant and just granted the patent.
I'd avoid licking any herpes problem, that's how it spreads.
because if the state joins in, the state will pay for and handle the case, and the two who started it won't have to do much. If this happens, they'll only get 20% by the way. They'll get 30% if they handle the case themselves and win though...
I agree that software patens are a bad idea, but I would lik to point a few things out.
It takes longer now to get patents than it did before the late 80s and early 90's, mostly because of the backlog. (About 4 years now if there are no rejections, vs 2 years or less previously.)
part of the reason patents are examined so poorly are that no one besides the dregs of the tech industry wants to work for the government. There's a whole lot of non-native english speakers working in the PTO as examiners.
Software wasn't officially patentable, with repect to algorithms, until about 1998. THe PTO had for a long time banned the patenting of "Mathematical formulae". The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in State St. Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Fin. Group, 149 F.3d 1368 that math algorithms were no patentable but
mathematical algorithms which were reduced to some type of practical application with a useful concrete result were. The court found that the patent in question fell within this category, which rendered it statutory subject matter, even though the useful result was expressed in numbers, such as price, profit, percentage, cost, or loss.
As far as business methods go, The Business Method Patent Improvement Act of 2000 was drafted to addres some of the problems where people would patent a widely used normally non-computer business method on a computer as novel.
Taxpayers won't have a whole lot to say. The PTO is one of the only government offices that brings in more money than it spends. Yes, they're operating at a surplus. The excess goes into the general accounting fund.
Seeing as how patents numbers are not in the six million range, your patent would have expired sometime in the 1900s.