their engineers invent something truly novel and useful, they will have weeks, months, or may be even years before competitors reverse-engineer their product and learn how to build it cheaper.
But what about the multi touch patent, which this seems to be about. There are a thousand ways it can be implemented, the issue is about detecting two or more fingers on a screen at the same time.
I have a clever way of installing a bell on my bicycle. Should I be able to patent that, because I was the first person to think about it?
The closed source license probably won't have a disclaimer against warranty and liability so the company which requests that license should certainly pay.
Impossible. Shortest distance across Atlantic is ~2500km. If you want to cover it in ½ hour then your speed must be ~5000km/h. SR-71 has (had?) top speed of over 3500km/h... and you are suggesting of making plane that goes almost 50% faster?
Thats why I said a semi ballistic glider. It leaves the atmosphere on a trajectory which will cause it to re-enter on the other side of the Atlantic. The space shuttle would cross the Atlantic in less time because it is not landing, but if the emergency landing site in Spain is used that would be about half an hour after launch.
Thats interesting. I wonder if scaling back to suborbital flight is just because they can attract a bigger market that way. Some people want to go to orbit, but many people need to get from A to B as quickly as possible.
I don't recall getting the assignment, "Make a science project", in school.
Here in Victoria, Australia we did. I built a NiCD battery charger (effectively an op-amp based constant current source) and my friend built a wind tunnel. Both of us were into model aircraft at the time so both projects were kind of practical. It was basically a matter of building whatever interested us and bringing it into school. The Bomb Squad never got involved though it would have been cool to see their robot in action. Damn. Missed opportunity.
I am sure they found many potential bombs around that house. How about the can of fuel for the mower? I wonder if they did anything about that?
I have written previously here about the misadventures my father and I had with accidental explosives. The classic was the electrolysis setup inside a sealed sewer pipe. These days I would look at laser printer toner and flower. Nasty, explosive stuff in the right concentrations. How about staging it? Liquid petrol, petrol vapour and toner? And a spark plug, obviously. Or a 1/4 watt resistor.
I think the issue is why were authorities called at all? I had lots of electronics at school. Radios I built myself. Projects I had to do for classes. It was never an issue. A few of our teachers knew a lot more about that stuff than I did. Several had done electronic work in industry before they became teachers.
Litigation happened. On the day you can be absolutely right, but any parent can still sue you for endangering their child and get a nice retirement payout from the schools insurance policy.
Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.
This kid is clearly a genius. He has created the worlds first 100% hard vacuum, in a soft drink bottle no less. He has even eliminated zero point energy.
recovering from a dive can actually be much more difficult than entering one, because the fuel shifts forward, changing the aircraft's center of gravity.
Yes, Neil Armstrong discovered that, 6000 up over Tranquility Base. I think it was part of the reason he landed so low on fuel. He waited for the slosh to subside.
Installing modern avionics might attract more attention from your domestic security agencies though. Far better from their perspective that your aircraft is a not particularly functional fossil.
Civil GPS units stop working above a particular speed so they can't be used in cruise missiles. If you install a GPS which works above mach 1, expect some questions about your intentions.
I was curious about Concorde replacements a while back and researched some of the Soviet fighters.
For the same money you could pay Scaled Composites to build you a brand new semi ballistic glider. I bet Branson would be interested as well. How does 30 minutes to cross the Atlantic sound?
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their engineers invent something truly novel and useful, they will have weeks, months, or may be even years before competitors reverse-engineer their product and learn how to build it cheaper.
But what about the multi touch patent, which this seems to be about. There are a thousand ways it can be implemented, the issue is about detecting two or more fingers on a screen at the same time.
I have a clever way of installing a bell on my bicycle. Should I be able to patent that, because I was the first person to think about it?
There was this guy 2000 years ago who got nailed to a tree for saying stuff like that.
The closed source license probably won't have a disclaimer against warranty and liability so the company which requests that license should certainly pay.
How does 30 minutes to cross the Atlantic sound?
Impossible. Shortest distance across Atlantic is ~2500km. If you want to cover it in ½ hour then your speed must be ~5000km/h. SR-71 has (had?) top speed of over 3500km/h... and you are suggesting of making plane that goes almost 50% faster?
Thats why I said a semi ballistic glider. It leaves the atmosphere on a trajectory which will cause it to re-enter on the other side of the Atlantic. The space shuttle would cross the Atlantic in less time because it is not landing, but if the emergency landing site in Spain is used that would be about half an hour after launch.
Thats interesting. I wonder if scaling back to suborbital flight is just because they can attract a bigger market that way. Some people want to go to orbit, but many people need to get from A to B as quickly as possible.
Seriously, doesn't OBL have 50 half brothers or something? Some of them must be older than him.
Now thats a thought.
And he hasn't been near Pakistan for years....
What I mean is if the difference between inside the envelope and outside is 5% there is not much point having an envelope.
tried to make napalm
Gee home economics at my school was boring by comparison. We had to make stuff you could eat.
I don't recall getting the assignment, "Make a science project", in school.
Here in Victoria, Australia we did. I built a NiCD battery charger (effectively an op-amp based constant current source) and my friend built a wind tunnel. Both of us were into model aircraft at the time so both projects were kind of practical. It was basically a matter of building whatever interested us and bringing it into school. The Bomb Squad never got involved though it would have been cool to see their robot in action. Damn. Missed opportunity.
This kid should build surveillance devices and metal detectors. Just as interesting and its also getting with the school program.
I am sure they found many potential bombs around that house. How about the can of fuel for the mower? I wonder if they did anything about that?
I have written previously here about the misadventures my father and I had with accidental explosives. The classic was the electrolysis setup inside a sealed sewer pipe. These days I would look at laser printer toner and flower. Nasty, explosive stuff in the right concentrations. How about staging it? Liquid petrol, petrol vapour and toner? And a spark plug, obviously. Or a 1/4 watt resistor.
I think the issue is why were authorities called at all? I had lots of electronics at school. Radios I built myself. Projects I had to do for classes. It was never an issue. A few of our teachers knew a lot more about that stuff than I did. Several had done electronic work in industry before they became teachers.
Litigation happened. On the day you can be absolutely right, but any parent can still sue you for endangering their child and get a nice retirement payout from the schools insurance policy.
So they told you that you had a great way to grow marijuana? Thats nice of them. I wonder what experience led them to that idea.
Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.
This kid is clearly a genius. He has created the worlds first 100% hard vacuum, in a soft drink bottle no less. He has even eliminated zero point energy.
The school, which has about 440 students in grades 6 to 8 and emphasizes technology skills, was initially put on lockdown while authorities responded.
...Stu
Apparently they don't emphasise soldering skills. Thats the kind of thing which will be done in China in the future.
recovering from a dive can actually be much more difficult than entering one, because the fuel shifts forward, changing the aircraft's center of gravity.
Yes, Neil Armstrong discovered that, 6000 up over Tranquility Base. I think it was part of the reason he landed so low on fuel. He waited for the slosh to subside.
Installing modern avionics might attract more attention from your domestic security agencies though. Far better from their perspective that your aircraft is a not particularly functional fossil.
Civil GPS units stop working above a particular speed so they can't be used in cruise missiles. If you install a GPS which works above mach 1, expect some questions about your intentions.
The Aces II has a "success" rate of about 90% when operating outside the ejection envelope and about 95% within the envelope.
Thats not much of an envelope!
Smugglers would be far better off sending modern UAVs. Seriously, fly model airplanes across the Mexican border.
Squatting on it I suppose.
I was curious about Concorde replacements a while
back and researched some of the Soviet fighters.
For the same money you could pay Scaled Composites to build you a brand new semi ballistic glider. I bet Branson would be interested as well. How does 30 minutes to cross the Atlantic sound?
Sending the air force up is pretty routine now. The US does it if a passenger argues with the crew.