I hope I'm not alone at being awestruck at what this man accomplished so long ago. It's rare in the present that something is envisioned so far ahead of it's time that it takes decades to let manufacturing technologies to catch up with IT instead of developing uses for an already made product. Also, he designed the device without a working prototype yet it works flawlessly IRL. I know if I were to design something that grandiose on paper, it wouldn't work at all:^) All I can say is "I'm not worthy":^)
I bet it will come with a Microsoft(tm) WIN-DVD drive, WINmodem, WINmemory, WINvideo card, and a WINprocessor that are all emulated using software on an Intel 8051 processor overclocked to 33mhz. "We said it was supposed to run at 1Ghz, but that was in testing labs with REAL hardware. Now be happy little drones and take what we give you. Long live the Ballmer!":^)
I have been a Slackware linux user for about 3 1/2 years now, and I decided that I would try Redhat due to it's new *advanced easy to use GUI setup* that I have heard from many people make it really easy to set up linux quickly. Well, after trying it out, I didn't like it. My main gripe was that I was limited in the length of characters I could type in the lilo header when setting it up in the GUI ( something like 15 or so letters ). I have an ABit BE6 mobo, and I was going to install linux to boot off of my Highpoint UDMA/66 controller.... I couldn't do it because I couldn't type the hard drive parms for ide1 and ide2. If you were a newbie or had a generic system, I guess the X setup would work ok... but if you want to do an even remotely non cloned setup you're screwed. After all this, I decided to go back to Slack because even though it doesn't have full RPM support IMHO it's easier to setup and manage. Plus, I'm sorry, but you can already do the IRQ checking and et.al..... It's called pico/proc/whatever.
If thhe guy that came up with the more elegant formula decided to find a unique way to APPLY his formula (e.g. some kind of software app) that is totally different than anything out there... then yes he should be able to patent a unique way to give it a productive use. But if the y start giving patents for concepts such as mathematics then I think I'm going to get a patent on the colors blue and yellow. And thinking of that, wouldn't I get a patent for the color green because it is a secondary product of my patented concepts?:^)
Yeah, they do... when it comes to cd-roms and other parts, they are marketed unde3r different names. It's probably easier to combine names for import purposes ( who knows ) e.g. Matsushita-Kobuki CD-Roms
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I hope I'm not alone at being awestruck at what this man accomplished so long ago. It's rare in the present that something is envisioned so far ahead of it's time that it takes decades to let manufacturing technologies to catch up with IT instead of developing uses for an already made product. Also, he designed the device without a working prototype yet it works flawlessly IRL. I know if I were to design something that grandiose on paper, it wouldn't work at all :^) All I can say is "I'm not worthy" :^)
I bet it will come with a Microsoft(tm) WIN-DVD drive, WINmodem, WINmemory, WINvideo card, and a WINprocessor that are all emulated using software on an Intel 8051 processor overclocked to 33mhz. "We said it was supposed to run at 1Ghz, but that was in testing labs with REAL hardware. Now be happy little drones and take what we give you. Long live the Ballmer!" :^)
I have been a Slackware linux user for about 3 1/2 years now, and I decided that I would try Redhat due to it's new *advanced easy to use GUI setup* that I have heard from many people make it really easy to set up linux quickly. Well, after trying it out, I didn't like it. My main gripe was that I was limited in the length of characters I could type in the lilo header when setting it up in the GUI ( something like 15 or so letters ). I have an ABit BE6 mobo, and I was going to install linux to boot off of my Highpoint UDMA/66 controller.... I couldn't do it because I couldn't type the hard drive parms for ide1 and ide2. If you were a newbie or had a generic system, I guess the X setup would work ok... but if you want to do an even remotely non cloned setup you're screwed. After all this, I decided to go back to Slack because even though it doesn't have full RPM support IMHO it's easier to setup and manage. Plus, I'm sorry, but you can already do the IRQ checking and et.al. .... It's called pico /proc/whatever.
If thhe guy that came up with the more elegant formula decided to find a unique way to APPLY his formula (e.g. some kind of software app) that is totally different than anything out there... then yes he should be able to patent a unique way to give it a productive use. But if the y start giving patents for concepts such as mathematics then I think I'm going to get a patent on the colors blue and yellow. And thinking of that, wouldn't I get a patent for the color green because it is a secondary product of my patented concepts? :^)
Yeah, they do... when it comes to cd-roms and other parts, they are marketed unde3r different names. It's probably easier to combine names for import purposes ( who knows ) e.g. Matsushita-Kobuki CD-Roms
Guess the Army guys got tired of rebooting their tanks after running Windows CE for 5 mins...
- If at first you DO succeed, you're working too hard.