Same here. Got tired of IE slowness and switched to Firefox. But incompatibilities, slowness and the plugin nonsense got me to try Chrome and I love it. So much faster. Never looked back.
Actually no, I don't think they deserve a patent. Their design was based on that of a German engineer, Otto Lilienthal who published a book on aerodynamics and wing design in 1891. All the wrights did was make an engine light enough to be placed on this structure.
In fact their math explaining why their design was correct was completely wrong. A professor who was competing with them actually had the correct equations, but his design failed during a test and he ended up in the Potomac.
Sure the Wrights took the Europeans to court, but they could not do anything about it until they tried to set foot on US soil. Of course the US courts sided with the Wrights, but the Wrights never won anything substantial in the European court system.
I did not decide the Wrights were the bad guy. I'm using this as an example why the patent system stifles competition, not encourages it like it was intended.
You cannot argue with the end result - the Americans lagged far behind the Europeans because competition and development in the US was blocked by the Wright patent.
Agreed. In the terminology of house and utility wiring, the term 'two phase' doesn't really exist. You have either three phase (120 degree apart) or single phase. The fact that the two hots are 180 degrees out of phase wrt the neutral is irrelevant. The terminology still calls that single phase, because its off of a single phase of the original three phase transmission line.
Can you actually name a modern instance where the patent system is doing anyone any good? Do you know why the US fell behind in flight after the Wright brothers flew successfully? Its because they patented the invention then spent the next 17 years suing others to protect it. Meanwhile, the Europeans (French, English, German, and others) just built better aircraft and ignored the Wright patent. This resulted in the Europeans being vastly ahead in technology to the Americans. Also when WWI started the US entered with almost no manufacturing capability fdor aircraft as the Wrights had successfully blocked all other American aircraft competitors.
Nowadays, we have numerous instances of corporations patenting both ideas and algorithms - things that were never intended in the original patent system. The vast majority of patents are about clearly obvious things - again something that was never intended. Just because some patent clerk never heard of it doesn't mean it in non-obvious. Corporations just churn out patent after patent, nothing is ever built or intended to be built - it is just a means to legally sue someone to generate future income. No innovation is ever generated.
There wasn't much depth in my original post because there didn't need to be. SCRAP IT. The patent system does nothing other than stifle innovation, and cause companies to spend millions on lawyers either defending ridiculous patents or defending infringements on them. That money should be going towards innovation, not legal battles.
The other poster Mashdar is correct. In North America, houses are all fed by a single phase 220 after a step down transformer.
Taking either line against the neutral gives you 110, taking both lines gives you 220. This is at the fuse box - you cannot obviously take two 110 plugs in your house and combine them to get 220.
Yes exactly. Deceleration is just an acceleration that reduces your total absolute speed (in a given frame of reference). Which is why you can never go 'backwards' just be decelerating as you previously claimed, by definition as I previously stated.
A house gets a single phase 220V line with neutral. Lines requiring 220V use the two 220 taps. Most circuits just need 110 which is one of the 220 taps and the neutral. So yes, two 110 lines added will make 220, because the 110 lines are just half of the source 220.
NO one has three phase running to their home unless they are an industrial complex or shopping mall. Three phase is on the pole, only a single phase gets sent to the house.
As you said, if you publish patentable matter, no matter how obscure the journal, that matter becomes part of the public domain and is therefore not patentable by definition. Further, if you were to try to subsequently patent your published matter, your failure to disclose the prior publication in your patent application (c/w)ould constitute Fraud on the Patent Office, which is punishable by law.
No, you have a year grace period after publication to filing of a related patent (if of course the author of the article and the patent inventor are one and the same)
just because you take something patented in something else, does not make it a new patent by *gasp* saying
use patented process *IN* this new *TYPE OF DEVICE*
Not necessarily true. Sometimes you can patent a new device or process that contains components that are patented but you've figured out how to use them in a novel and non-obvious way that has not been done before.
No, but if you patented the process of using a single gun to commit a felony, then using two guns would not be in violation of this patent.
No. Just because you have two guns doesn't mean you no longer have 'a' gun. You would have to show that using two guns simultaneously was a unique method of committing a felony, distinct from and not possible to perform with a single gun, and not similar to the method of committing a felony with a single gun.
And do you actually think the information you got actually *came* from Cuba? No, its information from somewhere else.
Try booking a flight to Cuba. Or doing any other business with them if you are an American. The US government makes it a crime to do such things and levies huge fines and/or jail time if corporations try.
Not true, supermarkets are always directly comparing who has the cheapest products
But price is completely verifiable so should be allowed to compare. What a commercial cannot do is say something like 'Aspirin is a complete piece of shit and can cause tumors. Use Tylenol instead!'
the problem stems from people using trademarks that have become synonymous with some field of expertise
But that's no different than saying say 'pass me a Kleenex' instead of 'pass me a tissue'. The brand has become so synonymous with the object that people treat them one and the same.
Most companies would kill to get that kind of brand recognition and free advertising.
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I completely agree that they are not patentable. However they ARE being patented.
Same here. Got tired of IE slowness and switched to Firefox. But incompatibilities, slowness and the plugin nonsense got me to try Chrome and I love it. So much faster. Never looked back.
Actually no, I don't think they deserve a patent. Their design was based on that of a German engineer, Otto Lilienthal who published a book on aerodynamics and wing design in 1891. All the wrights did was make an engine light enough to be placed on this structure.
In fact their math explaining why their design was correct was completely wrong. A professor who was competing with them actually had the correct equations, but his design failed during a test and he ended up in the Potomac.
Sure the Wrights took the Europeans to court, but they could not do anything about it until they tried to set foot on US soil. Of course the US courts sided with the Wrights, but the Wrights never won anything substantial in the European court system.
I did not decide the Wrights were the bad guy. I'm using this as an example why the patent system stifles competition, not encourages it like it was intended.
You cannot argue with the end result - the Americans lagged far behind the Europeans because competition and development in the US was blocked by the Wright patent.
Most houses have two phase. Usually two 100A legs nowadays.
Wrong terminology - thats *single* phase.
Agreed. In the terminology of house and utility wiring, the term 'two phase' doesn't really exist. You have either three phase (120 degree apart) or single phase. The fact that the two hots are 180 degrees out of phase wrt the neutral is irrelevant. The terminology still calls that single phase, because its off of a single phase of the original three phase transmission line.
No its not socialist. You don't understand the meaning of the word.
Can you actually name a modern instance where the patent system is doing anyone any good? Do you know why the US fell behind in flight after the Wright brothers flew successfully? Its because they patented the invention then spent the next 17 years suing others to protect it. Meanwhile, the Europeans (French, English, German, and others) just built better aircraft and ignored the Wright patent. This resulted in the Europeans being vastly ahead in technology to the Americans. Also when WWI started the US entered with almost no manufacturing capability fdor aircraft as the Wrights had successfully blocked all other American aircraft competitors.
Nowadays, we have numerous instances of corporations patenting both ideas and algorithms - things that were never intended in the original patent system. The vast majority of patents are about clearly obvious things - again something that was never intended. Just because some patent clerk never heard of it doesn't mean it in non-obvious. Corporations just churn out patent after patent, nothing is ever built or intended to be built - it is just a means to legally sue someone to generate future income. No innovation is ever generated.
There wasn't much depth in my original post because there didn't need to be. SCRAP IT. The patent system does nothing other than stifle innovation, and cause companies to spend millions on lawyers either defending ridiculous patents or defending infringements on them. That money should be going towards innovation, not legal battles.
Yet another reason to completely scrap the patent process as the original intent of patents has been completely corrupted by lawyers.
The other poster Mashdar is correct. In North America, houses are all fed by a single phase 220 after a step down transformer.
Taking either line against the neutral gives you 110, taking both lines gives you 220. This is at the fuse box - you cannot obviously take two 110 plugs in your house and combine them to get 220.
NO. It's single phase. All houses in North America are served by single phase.
Yes exactly. Deceleration is just an acceleration that reduces your total absolute speed (in a given frame of reference). Which is why you can never go 'backwards' just be decelerating as you previously claimed, by definition as I previously stated.
No. You don't understand basic house wiring.
A house gets a single phase 220V line with neutral. Lines requiring 220V use the two 220 taps. Most circuits just need 110 which is one of the 220 taps and the neutral. So yes, two 110 lines added will make 220, because the 110 lines are just half of the source 220.
But everything is single phase.
This is ridiculous.
NO one has three phase running to their home unless they are an industrial complex or shopping mall. Three phase is on the pole, only a single phase gets sent to the house.
Physics *IS* math. However Math also includes algorithms and concepts that have no physical basis, or at least none discovered yet.
As you said, if you publish patentable matter, no matter how obscure the journal, that matter becomes part of the public domain and is therefore not patentable by definition. Further, if you were to try to subsequently patent your published matter, your failure to disclose the prior publication in your patent application (c/w)ould constitute Fraud on the Patent Office, which is punishable by law.
No, you have a year grace period after publication to filing of a related patent (if of course the author of the article and the patent inventor are one and the same)
That's just totally wrong. A decelerating object will eventually change direction, no matter how small the deceleration.
No. THAT is totally wrong..
I can decelerate to 0 and never change direction. If I eventually do change direction then that is an acceleration by definition, not a deceleration.
You cannot patent algorithms.
just because you take something patented in something else, does not make it a new patent by *gasp* saying use patented process *IN* this new *TYPE OF DEVICE*
Not necessarily true. Sometimes you can patent a new device or process that contains components that are patented but you've figured out how to use them in a novel and non-obvious way that has not been done before.
No, but if you patented the process of using a single gun to commit a felony, then using two guns would not be in violation of this patent.
No. Just because you have two guns doesn't mean you no longer have 'a' gun. You would have to show that using two guns simultaneously was a unique method of committing a felony, distinct from and not possible to perform with a single gun, and not similar to the method of committing a felony with a single gun.
You mean it's not like Fox news.
Why not just buy a pool table? It certainly looks like one.
And do you actually think the information you got actually *came* from Cuba? No, its information from somewhere else.
Try booking a flight to Cuba. Or doing any other business with them if you are an American. The US government makes it a crime to do such things and levies huge fines and/or jail time if corporations try.
Not true, supermarkets are always directly comparing who has the cheapest products
But price is completely verifiable so should be allowed to compare. What a commercial cannot do is say something like 'Aspirin is a complete piece of shit and can cause tumors. Use Tylenol instead!'
the problem stems from people using trademarks that have become synonymous with some field of expertise
But that's no different than saying say 'pass me a Kleenex' instead of 'pass me a tissue'. The brand has become so synonymous with the object that people treat them one and the same.
Most companies would kill to get that kind of brand recognition and free advertising.