For those of you that can't see how this violates our 4th Amendment rights, I'll make it easy with a car analogy - soon enough they'll be able to legally require you to purchase a car, just for the sake of forcing you to purchase car insurance. So much for your right the the security of your personal effects, property, and papers. How can you be secure when someone else tells you what to do with YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY?
While you people cheer for your 'victory' you cheer for the steady erosion of our security and liberties. You've just applauded the government being able to tell you to 'give your money to this industry or go to jail.'
A Win2K system absolutely hauls ass for DX9 gaming. So much less cruft. Win2K Professional still sits on one server just for that. Most anything that will work in XP will work in 2K, given the appropriate service pack (2K is up to 5? 6?)
While we need major health care reform, THIS was NOT the way to go. First off, this violates our 4th amendment rights. Let me explain. Our money that we have worked so hard for is our property to spend as we see fit. It is also a MAJOR component to our security. It is, in effect, an essential core component of the 4th amendment. This is an unreasonable seizure of our personal effects and papers, and a violation to our personal security.
Next off, this is nothing more than a thinly-veiled handout to the HI Industry. Requiring us to purchase health insurance "in case something happens" is like requiring us to purchase condoms "in case we have sex.' It's already happened with car insurance. With an adequate universal health care system in place, car insurance wouldn't really be necessary, except to repair the vehicle, not pay for damages done to a human being.
But next thing you know, they'll be passing a law requiring us to buy a car by the time we are a certain age, which of course comes with the prerequisite that you must get insurance for the car - instant handout/bailout to the car/truck and insurance industry.
Don't celebrate your 'victory' too hard, now. Really you're just fooling yourselves.
"Apple can't pretend that someone else will solve the problem for them through bigger hardware or the magic of open source."
Actually, they do all the time - that's why they waited a while before switching over to Intel.
For them, bigger hardware is the selling point. I rarely see a goddamned thing about efficiency marketed from Apple. They rely upon the next big hardware jump to push a product at three times what it should cost.
Battery ratings won't matter much, as soon as Nickel-Zinc is made in sizes other than AA and INDUSTRIAL then we'll be seeing MASSIVE leaps in battery life.
I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out another way of preventing harm.
Easier method instead of a brake would be a blade retractor - capacitance change, tension spring releases and the blade snaps upwards into a housing mechanism.
"Programmers wince today when told to build for Windows XP."
Only the ignorant bastards that rely upon high-level everything. I can program for Windows 98 or DOS without flinching, because I've got the low-level knowledge.
Most programmers today don't have that, and thus they are total pussies when told to code for anything EXCEPT the latest OS.
"The issue is not what was paid, it is, "should a company that chooses to make a product that is knowingly more dangerous than it needs to be, be held liable for preventable accidents?" This is not even a patent issue, it is a liability issue."
no, this is a patent issue. The inventor is also the lawyer that has been trying to FORCE this upon us for years.
Last I checked, the government does NOT have the power to force us to purchase something (despite the car and now-coming health insurance bullshit.)
"either license the tech or develop your own that provides a comparable level of safety."
I will bet you ten million dollars that those jurors had NO technical knowledge of the patent system, nor the patent in question.
The exact method used for the mechanism cannot be duplicated in any other way. I love tearing things apart and finding new ways of doing things, from what I read and from what i've seen in action, fat fucking chance of doing it without directly violating the patent in question. In fact, the only other way I could think of would be so destructive you might as well just give the saw operator a frag grenade, pull the pin, and release the fuse lever.
What needs to be written is that patent examiners and lawyers need to have degrees related directly to the product which they are attempting to get patented/judging for patent validity.
I'm betting we're seeing chemical engineers judging patents related to plumbing.
The brake is a huge aluminum block that clamps and slips onto/into the blade path. Blade damage is irreversible. I would never use a sudden-stop saw blade ever again after being triggered, anyways. Too much worry about metal fatigue or mechanical stress.
Kickback is the number one cause of all power tool injuries.
I watched my pal use a piece of wood on a joiner, broad-side, against safety regulations. one blade bit into a very wide knot (that it would have gone through normally if he was working the narrow plane) and threw the wood out from under his hand, where his weight on the wood plunged his hand right into the again-rotating triplet of joiner blades. Adios fingertips.
Of course, I must say that from my experience, most kickback is caused by sheer stupidity or carelessness.
"The interesting part is the use of what is presumably capacitive touch sensing on the blade to detect human flesh"
It is that and it is not new, and it isn't even novel. We've been using capacitance to detect everything from human flesh to metal contacting a surface for a long time.
I guess you want the government to force you to start paying for car insurance and health insurance, too. Hell, I guess you want them to force you to pay for anything THEY deem you must have, instead of providing it to us through our tax money.
Hell yes, I've got an old dual-ended screwdriver with a simple ultra-hard plastic handle, no locking mechanisms or anything, but it has served me well for quite a long time, from computer repair to driving screws into 2x4s. Found it in a Horseshow Casino emergency car repair kit found on the side of the road.
Battery-operated Ryobi equipment SUCKS. All mainline-operated Ryobi stuff has operated admirably. I've used corded table saws and drills to (mostly until foreclosure) rebuild the upstairs attic into a recording/entertainment studio. As far as I am concerned, as long as you don't run the thing continuously and burn the motor out, it is professional quality.
Hell, I just bought a new Ryobi corded drill for my new closet construction.
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For those of you that can't see how this violates our 4th Amendment rights, I'll make it easy with a car analogy - soon enough they'll be able to legally require you to purchase a car, just for the sake of forcing you to purchase car insurance. So much for your right the the security of your personal effects, property, and papers. How can you be secure when someone else tells you what to do with YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY?
While you people cheer for your 'victory' you cheer for the steady erosion of our security and liberties. You've just applauded the government being able to tell you to 'give your money to this industry or go to jail.'
Enjoy your 'victory' fools.
A Win2K system absolutely hauls ass for DX9 gaming. So much less cruft. Win2K Professional still sits on one server just for that. Most anything that will work in XP will work in 2K, given the appropriate service pack (2K is up to 5? 6?)
Tell that to all the COBOL programmers ;) Or those that still support IBM System/32.
While we need major health care reform, THIS was NOT the way to go. First off, this violates our 4th amendment rights. Let me explain. Our money that we have worked so hard for is our property to spend as we see fit. It is also a MAJOR component to our security. It is, in effect, an essential core component of the 4th amendment. This is an unreasonable seizure of our personal effects and papers, and a violation to our personal security.
Next off, this is nothing more than a thinly-veiled handout to the HI Industry. Requiring us to purchase health insurance "in case something happens" is like requiring us to purchase condoms "in case we have sex.' It's already happened with car insurance. With an adequate universal health care system in place, car insurance wouldn't really be necessary, except to repair the vehicle, not pay for damages done to a human being.
But next thing you know, they'll be passing a law requiring us to buy a car by the time we are a certain age, which of course comes with the prerequisite that you must get insurance for the car - instant handout/bailout to the car/truck and insurance industry.
Don't celebrate your 'victory' too hard, now. Really you're just fooling yourselves.
"Apple can't pretend that someone else will solve the problem for them through bigger hardware or the magic of open source."
Actually, they do all the time - that's why they waited a while before switching over to Intel.
For them, bigger hardware is the selling point. I rarely see a goddamned thing about efficiency marketed from Apple. They rely upon the next big hardware jump to push a product at three times what it should cost.
Battery ratings won't matter much, as soon as Nickel-Zinc is made in sizes other than AA and INDUSTRIAL then we'll be seeing MASSIVE leaps in battery life.
LMFAO Persiankitty. Now that was a staple porn site of the early-mid 90s!
They can use the technology you ignorant twit. It's called 'licensing.'
Don't talk about a system you obviously do not understand. Until you hold your own patents, AFAIC you have no room to speak.
I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out another way of preventing harm.
Easier method instead of a brake would be a blade retractor - capacitance change, tension spring releases and the blade snaps upwards into a housing mechanism.
No need for a destructive brake.
"XP was actually a big upgrade over 2000."
Yea, from a 400MB install to a 1.8GB install, and 2000 supported everything XP supported, minus the added DRM.
BIG Upgrade, pointless waste of time.
"Why would someone need a quad core CPU and 4GB RAM to edit 10 page Word document?"
Because you've got fucking Norton or McAfee taking up 3.5GB and 3 cores.
"Programmers wince today when told to build for Windows XP."
Only the ignorant bastards that rely upon high-level everything. I can program for Windows 98 or DOS without flinching, because I've got the low-level knowledge.
Most programmers today don't have that, and thus they are total pussies when told to code for anything EXCEPT the latest OS.
Easy, because rotten.com is one of the original good shock sites that any geek would've encountered long ago, you premature pre-pubescent prick.
All of this relating to my point of a 'diverse group sample'
Thank you for clarifying this a bit better than I could.
This isn't clever at all. It destroys the blade and entire breaking mechanism. What the fuck is clever about that?
"The issue is not what was paid, it is, "should a company that chooses to make a product that is knowingly more dangerous than it needs to be, be held liable for preventable accidents?" This is not even a patent issue, it is a liability issue."
no, this is a patent issue. The inventor is also the lawyer that has been trying to FORCE this upon us for years.
Last I checked, the government does NOT have the power to force us to purchase something (despite the car and now-coming health insurance bullshit.)
And neither should this litigious asshole.
Yes.
CRUNCH!
"either license the tech or develop your own that provides a comparable level of safety."
I will bet you ten million dollars that those jurors had NO technical knowledge of the patent system, nor the patent in question.
The exact method used for the mechanism cannot be duplicated in any other way. I love tearing things apart and finding new ways of doing things, from what I read and from what i've seen in action, fat fucking chance of doing it without directly violating the patent in question. In fact, the only other way I could think of would be so destructive you might as well just give the saw operator a frag grenade, pull the pin, and release the fuse lever.
What needs to be written is that patent examiners and lawyers need to have degrees related directly to the product which they are attempting to get patented/judging for patent validity.
I'm betting we're seeing chemical engineers judging patents related to plumbing.
The brake is a huge aluminum block that clamps and slips onto/into the blade path. Blade damage is irreversible. I would never use a sudden-stop saw blade ever again after being triggered, anyways. Too much worry about metal fatigue or mechanical stress.
Kickback is the number one cause of all power tool injuries.
I watched my pal use a piece of wood on a joiner, broad-side, against safety regulations. one blade bit into a very wide knot (that it would have gone through normally if he was working the narrow plane) and threw the wood out from under his hand, where his weight on the wood plunged his hand right into the again-rotating triplet of joiner blades. Adios fingertips.
Of course, I must say that from my experience, most kickback is caused by sheer stupidity or carelessness.
"The interesting part is the use of what is presumably capacitive touch sensing on the blade to detect human flesh"
It is that and it is not new, and it isn't even novel. We've been using capacitance to detect everything from human flesh to metal contacting a surface for a long time.
I guess you want the government to force you to start paying for car insurance and health insurance, too. Hell, I guess you want them to force you to pay for anything THEY deem you must have, instead of providing it to us through our tax money.
You sound like a GOP member.
Hell yes, I've got an old dual-ended screwdriver with a simple ultra-hard plastic handle, no locking mechanisms or anything, but it has served me well for quite a long time, from computer repair to driving screws into 2x4s. Found it in a Horseshow Casino emergency car repair kit found on the side of the road.
Battery-operated Ryobi equipment SUCKS. All mainline-operated Ryobi stuff has operated admirably. I've used corded table saws and drills to (mostly until foreclosure) rebuild the upstairs attic into a recording/entertainment studio. As far as I am concerned, as long as you don't run the thing continuously and burn the motor out, it is professional quality.
Hell, I just bought a new Ryobi corded drill for my new closet construction.