Well, the fuzzy thing about this is that the heat still has to go somewhere. Granted you may not be powering thousands of tiny, whiny fans to remove the heat from the device, but now you've got a heated mass of oil that itself needs to be cooled off.
Well using an oil bath to coll a semiconductor doesn't magically halve the current needed to switch a transistor so he's got something mixed up here. Or it's a bald-faced lie.
"It is possible to cut power consumption in half," managing director Peter Hopton told New Scientist. "You don't need to drive inefficient fans, or the usual air conditioning."
Do data centers really use as much power cooling the server farms as running them?
I really believe the "novelty" of the controller has yet to fully be explored. Zelda makes the best use of the remote to date for immersive gameplay (try playing the GC version then switch, it's really amazing), but the things only been out for 5.5 months. As far as backwards compatibility and the VC not adding value to the console, that's just craziness. It's really the main reason I bought one in December even though I knew there would be a title slump. I haven't owned a console in 8 (maybe more?) years but now I can catch up a bit on some of the really fun games I've played on friend's systems over the years.
The level of ordinary skill varies depending on the art in question. You cannot make a fair judgment between these fields as the level of skill in biotech research is much higher than your standard fair programmer or business manager. The education levels and average expertise are leagues apart.
I apologize if you weren't trying to make this assumption, but it bears repeating regardless.
That sounds well and good (forgetting the fact that you'd be skirting the legal guidelines of examining a patent), but how is a board of 20 people going to review 50,000 or more software patent applications per year?
An application isn't assumed valid, however, according to 35 USC 101, the inventor of a given invention "may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title". Translation, if you submit an application, barring minor informalities in the application itself, it is up to the examiner to show the invention is not eligible for a patent.
I hope you're not suggesting there are only 3-4 inventions per year that meet even the strictest interpretations of statutory, novel and non-obvious. Do you seriously think so little research goes on in this world?
You are very, very wrong and misinformed. The law does in fact presume patentability. Also, applicant providing prior art is normal for every application and does not relieve the examiner of the burden of searching, even within the context of this system.
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Yes it does seem the PTO operates under the presumption of patentability because that's they way the law is written. Everyone around here likes to fancy themselves such experts on our patent system, when they really have no idea how any part of the examination process works. If you really want to feel qualified to rail on the PTO, please feel free to read up on the MPEP which details the prosecution of every given patent application. If you manage to sift through to relevant sections, you will also notice it is standard operating procedure for the applicant to provide known art. It is known as an Information Disclosure Sheet and is merely a supplemental tool the examiner must consider during prosecution.
Not true. Artic Silver changed their recommended instructions a couple years ago to the BB-sized dot in the middle of the core technique. This reduces the chance of air bubbles that can occur when you try to level the compound manually because the pressure of applying the heatsink will do a much better job.
Your prime example here also highlights the limitations of staff-moderated systems. Yet you can look at Digg and see the perversions that occur in user-moderated scenarios. Which is better? Neither, both? I think Firehose may turn out to be a balanced mix of the two, but time will tell.
Anyway, what I would like to see is truly peer reviewed patent examination, the kind of review that is done in the scientific community, where the process is publicly disclosed (let's say, in a specialized magazine) and people in the field either submit proof that it is either obvious or has prior art or accepts the patent as valid. Similar to what happens when one claims to have found a proof to some mathematical theorem. Not that I believe that it will happens someday, but a man can dream, can't he?
The biggest reason this won't work is the amount of legal training required to become an examiner. Patent examination is much more a legal argument than a technical one. Case in point is the 2000+ page MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedure) which sets forth the complete statutes, rules, guidelines and judicial precedent that determine a proper examination of each patent.
I'd agree with your sentiments. At home, Linux is a hobby that I indulge in on a secondary machine that is primarily use as a HTPC. At work, however, I would love to be running Linux. I had the pleasure of developing exclusively on a LAMP workstation a couple years ago and I was easily twice as efficient in Linux as I was in Windows. What really made the process a breeze for me was the ease of remote operation for pushing test code to the development server.
I can't get to TFA, but I would assume OCP is recognizing their typical user. Nearly every article they write is slanted towards the overclocking, Quake benching crowd.
If you ever want to see what it looks like to drive into oncoming traffic, spin the camera backwards then move your virtual car foward down the road. You also mow down your fair share of pedestrians.
If gas prices suddenly tripled, people would compensate (to some extent) by making fewer trips to the supermarket, go out to dinner less, order DVDs instead of drive to the google plex, and so on.
What you describe here is economic depression. If you force reduced spending by encouraging everyone to grind out their lives in the confines of their home trillions of dollars go unspent that were previously used to spur the economy. Aside from this is a basic human need to experience the world that can't be contained by high gas taxes, thus compounding the problem.
Pretty well put. The grandparent post lashes out at an attitude that it in itself exudes. The point should be that any general characterization of modern systems is inaccurate because interests among the classic demographics vary pretty widely.
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Well, the fuzzy thing about this is that the heat still has to go somewhere. Granted you may not be powering thousands of tiny, whiny fans to remove the heat from the device, but now you've got a heated mass of oil that itself needs to be cooled off.
Well using an oil bath to coll a semiconductor doesn't magically halve the current needed to switch a transistor so he's got something mixed up here. Or it's a bald-faced lie.
Thanks for those links! I rarely use the Internet Channel currently but it seems I've been missing out.
I really believe the "novelty" of the controller has yet to fully be explored. Zelda makes the best use of the remote to date for immersive gameplay (try playing the GC version then switch, it's really amazing), but the things only been out for 5.5 months. As far as backwards compatibility and the VC not adding value to the console, that's just craziness. It's really the main reason I bought one in December even though I knew there would be a title slump. I haven't owned a console in 8 (maybe more?) years but now I can catch up a bit on some of the really fun games I've played on friend's systems over the years.
People care more about sports than about the weather?
The level of ordinary skill varies depending on the art in question. You cannot make a fair judgment between these fields as the level of skill in biotech research is much higher than your standard fair programmer or business manager. The education levels and average expertise are leagues apart.
I apologize if you weren't trying to make this assumption, but it bears repeating regardless.
That sounds well and good (forgetting the fact that you'd be skirting the legal guidelines of examining a patent), but how is a board of 20 people going to review 50,000 or more software patent applications per year?
An application isn't assumed valid, however, according to 35 USC 101, the inventor of a given invention "may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title". Translation, if you submit an application, barring minor informalities in the application itself, it is up to the examiner to show the invention is not eligible for a patent.
I hope you're not suggesting there are only 3-4 inventions per year that meet even the strictest interpretations of statutory, novel and non-obvious. Do you seriously think so little research goes on in this world?
You are very, very wrong and misinformed. The law does in fact presume patentability. Also, applicant providing prior art is normal for every application and does not relieve the examiner of the burden of searching, even within the context of this system.
Not true. Artic Silver changed their recommended instructions a couple years ago to the BB-sized dot in the middle of the core technique. This reduces the chance of air bubbles that can occur when you try to level the compound manually because the pressure of applying the heatsink will do a much better job.
Most serious overclockers remove modern heatspreaders and carry on as they always had.
Your prime example here also highlights the limitations of staff-moderated systems. Yet you can look at Digg and see the perversions that occur in user-moderated scenarios. Which is better? Neither, both? I think Firehose may turn out to be a balanced mix of the two, but time will tell.
It's fine if it is not your cup of tea, but does it really bother you that much that other people seek and enjoy entertainment mediums you do not?
I'd agree with your sentiments. At home, Linux is a hobby that I indulge in on a secondary machine that is primarily use as a HTPC. At work, however, I would love to be running Linux. I had the pleasure of developing exclusively on a LAMP workstation a couple years ago and I was easily twice as efficient in Linux as I was in Windows. What really made the process a breeze for me was the ease of remote operation for pushing test code to the development server.
I can't get to TFA, but I would assume OCP is recognizing their typical user. Nearly every article they write is slanted towards the overclocking, Quake benching crowd.
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html
It's still in beta AFAIK, but it has been in development for quite some time.
If you ever want to see what it looks like to drive into oncoming traffic, spin the camera backwards then move your virtual car foward down the road. You also mow down your fair share of pedestrians.
What you describe here is economic depression. If you force reduced spending by encouraging everyone to grind out their lives in the confines of their home trillions of dollars go unspent that were previously used to spur the economy. Aside from this is a basic human need to experience the world that can't be contained by high gas taxes, thus compounding the problem.
Diablo 2. I rest my case.
Pretty well put. The grandparent post lashes out at an attitude that it in itself exudes. The point should be that any general characterization of modern systems is inaccurate because interests among the classic demographics vary pretty widely.