Ditto - however I doubt that we are the core audience. I expect Sony et.al do not care that we simply stop buying music. The increase in revenue from "die-hard" fans will make up (or is making up) for you and I.
Of course, collateral damage (such as my "no Sony" policy) means that they loose out on enternainment and IT systems sales for my home, family, work and clients.
Somehow I do not think they care too much about my policy but if a large enough group of us said "no" when someone tried to sell us Sony hardware they *may* just review the cost-benefit analysis.
Of course, we all know that this disease does not occur within the states, mainly because it is a federal offence to even mention the possiblity of it:-)
I ask you what is safer, wipe out the disease or discussion (and therefore action).
A good friend who I shared an office with for 2+ years used to run the email systems in his own time.
The company used extensive paper mail (memos) delivered by staff with little trolleys but email was taking over. There were around 100,000 emails perl day or more - of this number one or two would be "Lost'.
Initially the recipient or originator would come into our office full of righteous indignation expecting Bryan to drop everything and find his missing email.
I suggested that he place weekly stats on our office door. People still came up but looked at the ~500,000 msgs/week. Thier perception was that bryan delivered email *by hand* ala post trolleys and was responsible for every message.
When they saw this number their perception of him was of someone doing "magic". You could see the fire die in thier eyes and the majority turned away and never barged in:-)
Moral: perception and reality differ - changing perception may be more important that trying to change reality.
In the UK it is your responsibility to provide proof that you have taken all reasonable steps to
search for prior art.
I see no reason why if this is proven to be false,
punitive action should not be taken.
Yes I do belive it is harsh but if implemented
MS, IBm et.al would be divesting themselves
of large numbers of patents - or registering them
overseas instead.
Here is an idea.
If a company registers a patent and that patent
is shown to have publically visible prior art
(no "did'nt see it" excuses allowed) then
the company loses ALL registered patents.
This would stop the big shots such as MS etc
from issuing shoddy patents and force them to
provide prior art details to the PTO.
Further to a company having its patent portfolio
revoked, all companies funding that company (and
its investors) would also
have thier portfolio revoked.
This would stop MS,IBM etc from setting up
dummy companies to file bogus patents.
Actually the people I am talking about use "opt in"
to mean the recipients pay to be included on the
mailing list - when thye get bounces it means
they failed to provide a contracted service:-(
All I can say is that this is more ill advised FUD from the.gov.uk mouthpiece.
As people I know in the legit email industry would tell you response rates for legitimate opt-in lists (existing opted in customers) are only ~7% or so on average - infrequently more but often far less.
This percentage is often determined by comparing known read emails to respondees. Many people who use a decent MUA will not be included in the prior but may be included in the latter.
Hell even subscription lists such as the sendmail (www.sendmail.org) lists are telling people that they are getting lots of AS bounces for people who confirmed opt in so just getting your message to 10% of confirmed opt-in'ers is a job these days.
That makes it 2MegaWatts for a 14x10 ft panel.
If I can put two of these on the roof on my RV
does this mean I can generate 4GW. If so I don't
need that 7litre Dodge!
Of course at an estimated cost of 1USD per
peak Watt it means I need to spend 2million
USD per panel:-)
Jacqui
p.s. I think they meant 120Watts for a 14x10 panel
at 110V which sounds a tad low for what is
quite a large panel. 120USD for such a panel
is not too bad - if they can pull if off.
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"My money has moved onto other interests..."
Ditto - however I doubt that we are the
core audience. I expect Sony et.al do not care
that we simply stop buying music. The increase
in revenue from "die-hard" fans will make up
(or is making up) for you and I.
Of course, collateral damage (such as my "no Sony"
policy) means that they loose out on enternainment
and IT systems sales for my home, family, work
and clients.
Somehow I do not think they care too much about my
policy but if a large enough group of us said "no" when someone tried to sell us Sony hardware they *may* just review the cost-benefit analysis.
Jacqui
Of course, we all know that this disease does :-)
not occur within the states, mainly because
it is a federal offence to even mention the
possiblity of it
I ask you what is safer, wipe out the disease
or discussion (and therefore action).
Jacqui
I can smell an RFC here :-)
IMHO if they stick it in a wood case, they could probably double the price.
I cannot find the link to the "design house" sticking a games PC in a wooden case and charging 20-4K UKP for ~2K's of PC and ~2K (max) or cabinetry.
Would you buy a keyboard from someone who rates keyboard usage as "based on 30 minutes use per day at six keystrokes per second".
A good friend who I shared an office with for 2+ years used to run the email systems in his own time.
:-)
The company used extensive paper mail (memos) delivered by staff with little trolleys but
email was taking over. There were around 100,000 emails perl day or more - of this number one or two would be "Lost'.
Initially the recipient or originator would come into our office full of righteous indignation expecting Bryan to drop everything and find his
missing email.
I suggested that he place weekly stats on our office door. People still came up but looked at the ~500,000 msgs/week. Thier perception was that bryan delivered email *by hand* ala post trolleys
and was responsible for every message.
When they saw this number their perception of him was of someone doing "magic". You could see the fire die in thier eyes and the majority turned away and never barged in
Moral: perception and reality differ - changing perception may be more important that trying to change reality.
In the UK it is your responsibility to provide proof that you have taken all reasonable steps to search for prior art.
I see no reason why if this is proven to be false, punitive action should not be taken.
Yes I do belive it is harsh but if implemented MS, IBm et.al would be divesting themselves of large numbers of patents - or registering them overseas instead.
Here is an idea.
If a company registers a patent and that patent is shown to have publically visible prior art (no "did'nt see it" excuses allowed) then the company loses ALL registered patents.
This would stop the big shots such as MS etc from issuing shoddy patents and force them to provide prior art details to the PTO.
Further to a company having its patent portfolio revoked, all companies funding that company (and its investors) would also have thier portfolio revoked.
This would stop MS,IBM etc from setting up dummy companies to file bogus patents.
Whoa!
:-)
I think you are on the right line here.
ARO holds the rights to the perl camel for
Larry Wall and defends it vigorously.
It *may* be possible to get ORA to do a similar
thing for our esteemed TUX, protecting his
honour.
Jacqui
You want to try 100 emails per day with ~30K attempts per day. Jacqui
Even ST has gone off this and tried to retrofit a "reed" alert.
Actually the people I am talking about use "opt in" to mean the recipients pay to be included on the mailing list - when thye get bounces it means they failed to provide a contracted service :-(
All I can say is that this is more ill advised .gov.uk mouthpiece.
FUD from the
As people I know in the legit email industry
would tell you response rates for legitimate
opt-in lists (existing opted in customers)
are only ~7% or so on average - infrequently
more but often far less.
This percentage is often determined
by comparing known read emails to
respondees. Many people who use a decent
MUA will not be included in the prior but
may be included in the latter.
Hell even subscription lists such as the
sendmail (www.sendmail.org) lists are telling
people that they are getting lots of AS bounces
for people who confirmed opt in so just getting
your message to 10% of confirmed opt-in'ers
is a job these days.
Lies, damn lies, statistics and BBC facts.
Jacqui
That makes it 2MegaWatts for a 14x10 ft panel. If I can put two of these on the roof on my RV does this mean I can generate 4GW. If so I don't need that 7litre Dodge! Of course at an estimated cost of 1USD per peak Watt it means I need to spend 2million USD per panel :-)
Jacqui
p.s. I think they meant 120Watts for a 14x10 panel
at 110V which sounds a tad low for what is
quite a large panel. 120USD for such a panel
is not too bad - if they can pull if off.