that was under 'first to invent' not 'first to file'. the current system will work the way you described. this patent however will require a trial with discovery and proving who invented it first.
well, without the copyright, you also wouldn't need the GPL, right? you would be free to decompile, copy, distribute whatever source you want. right? anything you release, anyone else could use.
But didn't Kodak try to push that whole EasyShare set of cameras? For a while wasn't it actually one of the better (easier) cameras for mom and pop getting all the pictures they took online? sure, they were probably tying it to a Shutterfly-type 'get real prints' service, but it seemed that they at least had the right approach from the hardware side, with regard to enabling easier uploading. Did they just drop the ball when facebook came along?
Also, Kodak still makes money on film. Primarily medical film, however. Digital technologies are getting better there, but analog film is still the standard. "is that a tumor or just JPEG pixellation" is not something you want your doctor trying to decipher.
I don't think he was saying it was perfect or great. He said it worked. No system is perfect. You just try for better, and sometimes you get it. Depending on the competition, sometimes it's not even that hard to get.
that's because it wants to be an alloy. it will alloy with steel too. but once it is a stable alloy, it can be just fine. E.g.: Gallinstan (68.5% Ga, 21.5% In and 10% Sn) being used as a replacement for mercury in a lot of liquid metal systems.
traces don't break. they suffer from electromigration. I.e., where the constant collision of electrons with the metal lattice eventually creates voids in the metal. Becomes more of a problem with higher power processors and narrower conductors. some metals are more susceptible as well. (aluminum more than copper, i think).
And similarly, they would get hot (due to the high current density in the near break) before they break, and this heat could trigger the liquid metal release. There are applications for high-reliability electronics. I think the automotive sector is the one that most easily comes to mind for the consumer market. Long use equiment, like medical equipment maybe too.
Also, don't forget, the equipment you have is designed to operate as long as necessary without the types of failures this would solve. Given this tool, could they be designed differently? More efficiently? Smaller? Maybe.
even simpler than that: if a game was fun to play 5 years ago when it was new, but I never got around to playing that one, why would it not be fun today? the few pc games I play anymore would be considered 'abandonware' even though they're all from this millenium. I was trying to hunt down my Monkey Island Madness CD for my 10 year old, as it came up in conversation and she expressed interest. Games don't just stop being fun because they're old, and there's a HUGE library of games out there. My kids DS plays gameboy advance games. I walk into gamestop, he uses his allowance to pick out 2-3 new (to him) games from the used GBA game bin, and he still has money left over. Or, he can get one DS game (maybe) with that same allowance. He figured out the math pretty fast.
just to be fair, the Disney parks don't charge anything for their Fast Pass system, and because of that it actually works fairly well. I think they were one of the first places to do it as a crowd management system. Al l the other parks later saw it as a moneymaking venture. (Next one I saw it at was the Universal parks just up the road from Disneyworld). Pay an extra $20 each on top of your $80 ticket and you get to the front of each ride once. Really separates out those who can and can't.
That said, I'm sure the Disney execs are kicking themselves for not having thought of charging for it first. Too much bad PR now. I've ehard rumor that they were going to start selling 'Fast Pass Packs' so you don't have to plan out the tickets. Would be a more reasonable middle ground.
you say that, yet we had people decide over the course of a couple years that a $0.50 cup of coffee was now worth $3.95. Of course they'll pay $5 for a cupcake.
was that early or late Clinton years? because IIRC there was a GDP increase there as a result of the 'dot-com' bubble. (remember all that budget surplus that mystically disappeared? lockboxes and tax cuts, oh my.) that bubble burst, and shortly thereafter we had the housing bubble, and then that burst. so, percentage of what GDP? where it should have been, where it was, or where it is?
just to play the other side, have you analyzed the metabolic breakdown of zinc acetate or zinc gluconate and determined whether the average human digestive tract is able to absorb sufficient quantities of it in that form to treat zinc deficiency? What about that iron supplement? According to the almighty wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_supplements "Iron supplements are supplements that can be prescribed by a doctor for a medical reason. Iron can also be a dietary supplement, which can be purchased in supermarkets etc. These two categories should not be confused."
Iron supplements come in 3 common forms, with the level of 'likely' iron absorbed different in each, despite containing the same amount of elemental iron. The ability to treat iron deficiency depends on matching dose and need. An OTC iron supplement cannot claim the ability to help your iron deficiency because it cannot tell you the dosage required to do so, because such knowledge is impossible for it's makers to have. A prescription supplement could, with proper dosing and monitoring, help your iron deficiency, and this could be verified through FDA tested claims.
It's this, or snake-oil. At least historically. maybe there's a better middle ground, but we haven't seen it yet.
In addition, teachers are being forced to print/copy more, because they have to 'teach to the test' for all of the NCLB state assessments. there are many other ways to assess learning, but they need recorded documentation, and need to repeat delivery of assessment exercises in the exact form of the big test. (standard test taking practice, been tutoring it for SATs, etc. for years). When you have a predetermined metric, you design to the metric, and in this case that means using more paper.
Probably somewhere that has color-less money. Our district gets 'tech funding'. We've bought a few advanced projectors on mobile cats, video cameras, and some other things (no iGear, sadly). But, our teachers get a 'paper allotment' and gott forbid if any other money was spent on paper. The PTA gives teachers a small allocation each year for 'supplementary items' for the classroom. We'd get audited if it was suspected the money was getting used for 'primary education', and that includes buying them new paper. When mentioning at a PTA meeting that maybe the group could act as the go-between to get 'scrap' from local businesses, this issue came up. Who would oversee the appropriateness of the 'scrap'. Which corporate side office would take on the extra work to ensure only approved scrap paper was released, etc. Some government offices would require a 'Distribution A - Approved for Public Release' on any paper that wasn't almost trivially devoid of info.
Since the source _is_ the invention, and the pantent requires full disclosure of the invention such that one skilled in the art could recreate the invention (they just can't sell anything sans licensing for ~17 years), then _filing the patent_ should require disclosure of the source.
Brilliant. You should be a lawyer. But first, you should read up on what defines first degree versus not first degree felonies. Specifically those defined under Section 22.04, Penal Code, with respect to injury to a child. From your link:
Ten Years- theft of any estate by an executor/administrator. Theft by a public servant of government property, Forgery. Injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code; Sexual assault, unless there is DNA evidence or if the victim is under 18. Arson;... Five Years- Theft, burglary, robbery; kidnapping; injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code; abandoning or endangering a child; or insurance fraud;
So yeah, 5 years, unless they can make the argument for 1st degree status.
realizing the map was taken at 6.5km deep, I guess its not the same as an oil well. average oil well depths are 4000-6000ft, or about 2km. So you'd have to go pretty deep for these, maybe not too similar to sinking a well.
2: right now, we'd be talking about substitutional energy. people will use geothermal heat where they'd normally use combustion derived heat. so, unless this enables increases in energy use beyond current expected rates of energy use, the net heat to the environment shouldn't be significantly different. of course, when people have their own private free energy source, I guess they'll use more energy. So there is that.
the nice thing about geothermal: you're not actual bringing stuff up out of the ground. just heat. similar to sinking a well. local environment *can* me minimally impacted if done right.
well, the article is actually pretty good (the linked arxiv.org article, that is.) there's actually a lot they did to link the interactions between all the corporations. of course, the news headline has to sound ominous, or no one would have clicked through to read it.
well, to be fair, in the posted video it didn't take 15 seconds for inspection. assuming the first shot is taken after the clamps go down (~0:12) it presents the solved cube at about 0:18. So, est. 6 seconds including inspection. not too shabby.
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that was under 'first to invent' not 'first to file'. the current system will work the way you described. this patent however will require a trial with discovery and proving who invented it first.
well, without the copyright, you also wouldn't need the GPL, right? you would be free to decompile, copy, distribute whatever source you want. right? anything you release, anyone else could use.
But didn't Kodak try to push that whole EasyShare set of cameras? For a while wasn't it actually one of the better (easier) cameras for mom and pop getting all the pictures they took online? sure, they were probably tying it to a Shutterfly-type 'get real prints' service, but it seemed that they at least had the right approach from the hardware side, with regard to enabling easier uploading. Did they just drop the ball when facebook came along?
Also, Kodak still makes money on film. Primarily medical film, however. Digital technologies are getting better there, but analog film is still the standard. "is that a tumor or just JPEG pixellation" is not something you want your doctor trying to decipher.
I don't think he was saying it was perfect or great. He said it worked. No system is perfect. You just try for better, and sometimes you get it. Depending on the competition, sometimes it's not even that hard to get.
that's because it wants to be an alloy. it will alloy with steel too. but once it is a stable alloy, it can be just fine. E.g.: Gallinstan (68.5% Ga, 21.5% In and 10% Sn) being used as a replacement for mercury in a lot of liquid metal systems.
traces don't break. they suffer from electromigration. I.e., where the constant collision of electrons with the metal lattice eventually creates voids in the metal. Becomes more of a problem with higher power processors and narrower conductors. some metals are more susceptible as well. (aluminum more than copper, i think).
And similarly, they would get hot (due to the high current density in the near break) before they break, and this heat could trigger the liquid metal release. There are applications for high-reliability electronics. I think the automotive sector is the one that most easily comes to mind for the consumer market. Long use equiment, like medical equipment maybe too.
Also, don't forget, the equipment you have is designed to operate as long as necessary without the types of failures this would solve. Given this tool, could they be designed differently? More efficiently? Smaller? Maybe.
really? I thought he was going for a +5 funny myself. please tell me he wasn't trying to be serious.
even simpler than that:
if a game was fun to play 5 years ago when it was new, but I never got around to playing that one, why would it not be fun today? the few pc games I play anymore would be considered 'abandonware' even though they're all from this millenium. I was trying to hunt down my Monkey Island Madness CD for my 10 year old, as it came up in conversation and she expressed interest. Games don't just stop being fun because they're old, and there's a HUGE library of games out there. My kids DS plays gameboy advance games. I walk into gamestop, he uses his allowance to pick out 2-3 new (to him) games from the used GBA game bin, and he still has money left over. Or, he can get one DS game (maybe) with that same allowance. He figured out the math pretty fast.
just to be fair, the Disney parks don't charge anything for their Fast Pass system, and because of that it actually works fairly well. I think they were one of the first places to do it as a crowd management system. Al l the other parks later saw it as a moneymaking venture. (Next one I saw it at was the Universal parks just up the road from Disneyworld). Pay an extra $20 each on top of your $80 ticket and you get to the front of each ride once. Really separates out those who can and can't.
That said, I'm sure the Disney execs are kicking themselves for not having thought of charging for it first. Too much bad PR now. I've ehard rumor that they were going to start selling 'Fast Pass Packs' so you don't have to plan out the tickets. Would be a more reasonable middle ground.
you say that, yet we had people decide over the course of a couple years that a $0.50 cup of coffee was now worth $3.95. Of course they'll pay $5 for a cupcake.
was that early or late Clinton years? because IIRC there was a GDP increase there as a result of the 'dot-com' bubble. (remember all that budget surplus that mystically disappeared? lockboxes and tax cuts, oh my.) that bubble burst, and shortly thereafter we had the housing bubble, and then that burst. so, percentage of what GDP? where it should have been, where it was, or where it is?
just to play the other side, have you analyzed the metabolic breakdown of zinc acetate or zinc gluconate and determined whether the average human digestive tract is able to absorb sufficient quantities of it in that form to treat zinc deficiency? What about that iron supplement? According to the almighty wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_supplements
"Iron supplements are supplements that can be prescribed by a doctor for a medical reason. Iron can also be a dietary supplement, which can be purchased in supermarkets etc. These two categories should not be confused."
Iron supplements come in 3 common forms, with the level of 'likely' iron absorbed different in each, despite containing the same amount of elemental iron. The ability to treat iron deficiency depends on matching dose and need. An OTC iron supplement cannot claim the ability to help your iron deficiency because it cannot tell you the dosage required to do so, because such knowledge is impossible for it's makers to have. A prescription supplement could, with proper dosing and monitoring, help your iron deficiency, and this could be verified through FDA tested claims.
It's this, or snake-oil. At least historically. maybe there's a better middle ground, but we haven't seen it yet.
In addition, teachers are being forced to print/copy more, because they have to 'teach to the test' for all of the NCLB state assessments. there are many other ways to assess learning, but they need recorded documentation, and need to repeat delivery of assessment exercises in the exact form of the big test. (standard test taking practice, been tutoring it for SATs, etc. for years). When you have a predetermined metric, you design to the metric, and in this case that means using more paper.
only if the perforated feed strips are still there. those make the greatest crafts for the kindergartners.
Probably somewhere that has color-less money. Our district gets 'tech funding'. We've bought a few advanced projectors on mobile cats, video cameras, and some other things (no iGear, sadly). But, our teachers get a 'paper allotment' and gott forbid if any other money was spent on paper. The PTA gives teachers a small allocation each year for 'supplementary items' for the classroom. We'd get audited if it was suspected the money was getting used for 'primary education', and that includes buying them new paper. When mentioning at a PTA meeting that maybe the group could act as the go-between to get 'scrap' from local businesses, this issue came up. Who would oversee the appropriateness of the 'scrap'. Which corporate side office would take on the extra work to ensure only approved scrap paper was released, etc. Some government offices would require a 'Distribution A - Approved for Public Release' on any paper that wasn't almost trivially devoid of info.
Since the source _is_ the invention, and the pantent requires full disclosure of the invention such that one skilled in the art could recreate the invention (they just can't sell anything sans licensing for ~17 years), then _filing the patent_ should require disclosure of the source.
Brilliant. You should be a lawyer. But first, you should read up on what defines first degree versus not first degree felonies. Specifically those defined under Section 22.04, Penal Code, with respect to injury to a child. From your link:
Ten Years- theft of any estate by an executor/administrator. Theft by a public servant of government property, Forgery. Injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code; Sexual assault, unless there is DNA evidence or if the victim is under 18. Arson; ...
Five Years- Theft, burglary, robbery; kidnapping; injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code; abandoning or endangering a child; or insurance fraud;
So yeah, 5 years, unless they can make the argument for 1st degree status.
computers have a specific disadvantage with this problem. they have trouble holding the spatula.
no.
realizing the map was taken at 6.5km deep, I guess its not the same as an oil well. average oil well depths are 4000-6000ft, or about 2km. So you'd have to go pretty deep for these, maybe not too similar to sinking a well.
1: who knows.
2: right now, we'd be talking about substitutional energy. people will use geothermal heat where they'd normally use combustion derived heat. so, unless this enables increases in energy use beyond current expected rates of energy use, the net heat to the environment shouldn't be significantly different. of course, when people have their own private free energy source, I guess they'll use more energy. So there is that.
the nice thing about geothermal: you're not actual bringing stuff up out of the ground. just heat. similar to sinking a well. local environment *can* me minimally impacted if done right.
well, the article is actually pretty good (the linked arxiv.org article, that is.) there's actually a lot they did to link the interactions between all the corporations. of course, the news headline has to sound ominous, or no one would have clicked through to read it.
it did not look gentle at all. so, robotic friends for a subset of geeks who are into that.
well, to be fair, in the posted video it didn't take 15 seconds for inspection. assuming the first shot is taken after the clamps go down (~0:12) it presents the solved cube at about 0:18. So, est. 6 seconds including inspection. not too shabby.