Easy time limits to stop patent camping. For example if you apply for a patent and get you have 12 months to produce a "product" based on the IP otherwise it goes into public domain. Or another one, patents not licensed (to make a product) or used for 3 years automatically go into public domain.
> Fertilized embryos and zygotes are living homo sapien organisms--not some other species, right? They're becoming something we all recognize as human, or would given food and shelter?
Actually no, an embryo is a "potential human" made up of a bunch of cells with just as much relationship to a sentient human as you have to the blood that spills when you cut yourself shaving. You may say "but blood isnt a human", sorry but it is in the right hands. For example thanks to modern technology I can clone another human from your blood, thus the question can be raised are you a murderer when you destroy your own blood if you follow the thought process that an embryo is a human.
Then you have other quirky realities to deal with such as 3 in 5 embryos are rejected by the mother before their third trimester is she a murdered ? In fact a sexually active woman will abort hundreds of fertalised embryos in a life time naturally (natures quality control ?).
Then you have others saying a human is a sentient self aware organism, but babies become partially self aware between 18-24 months after birth and fully aware usually after 2-3 years.
My personal view is the same as the law in that a child that has reached 18 weeks can not be aborted unless it is horribly deformed or puts the womans life in danger (Im so so on the rape excuse).
I catch the train and bus to work every day and I have seen maybe two... yes "TWO!!" Zunes in the last year. I have seen more people using Nokia mobile phones to listen to music than Zunes by a factor of 100. Also people keep thinking everyone listens to music when they have an iPOD. Sorry but I as a long time iPOD user listen to podcasts and audio books way more than music. So the stereo typical iPOD user only listening to music and being a pre-pubescent teenager is utter rubbish.
You can feel for the poor sod who has to manage the set items,
1. 200lb of used chewing gum
2. 400 paper clips in various sizes.
3. Paper that morphs into a 4 door family sedan with ABS when water is added.
Dare say many a politician or despot (the only difference being one has better eating manners than the other and doesnt need a large supply of brown bags) will be very happy to hear this news. I can see the White house glowing like Vegas in future from all the well placed ultra-violet lighting.
I was listening to a radio interview with a professional house theif. When the said thief was asked what was the best deterant the reply was "a small dog as they are next to impossible to catch or bribe". After hearing this news the mental gears started whirring and I created a fake YAPPING dog security system. Its very simple with a IR motion sensor on the back and front entrance hooked into a MP3 player and a small PC speaker system. The hard part was finding a good yapping dog recording until I asked someone at the park if I could record her dog barking and she was happy to oblige once I explained why. Another trick is to have multiple varying MP3 files and make sure the MP3 player is set to shuffle so it sounds more realistic.
Fiber is fiber is fiber. It's marginally more expensive to deploy 100 strands instead of one,
To some degree your comment is correct but fibre isnt fibre. There is a wide variety of different optical fibre from glass to plastic to all the weird doped variants that allows the Telco's to use less amplifiers on long connections.
This is a typical company FUD tactic especially when costs in reality are going down or are static (share holders don't like static income growth). In this case speeds on fibre have increased massively over the last ten years with data speeds going from cutting edge single digit gigabyte speeds to terrabyte speeds within a few years. Some may say equipment and maintenance costs have gone up but that is also FUD because fibre maintenance and distances between amplifiers has increased and over all equipment failure rates have dropped.
No, multi touch screens (the one on the iPhone is actually licensed from a German company) and mouse pads have been around for years. What Apple has patented are aspects of using a multi touch mouse pad or screen with certain UI features.
[a manager grumpily storms into a room full of smoke and dust with gaping holes in the walls and light fittings hanging from the ceiling]
Manager "What happened here I heard this unearthly explosion ? "
[a pallid skinned, slightly chubby man is sitting in the corner wearing shredded clothes and has black burn marks on his face]
BOFH "I tried to port Quake II to the Babage machine and I needed to over clock it a bit and well one of the gears on the number 5 stack jammed when it reached 24,000 rpm"
Harnessing the power from lightening is a great idea until you look at the logistics. To give you an idea its a bit like connecting a huge magical nuclear power plant to the grid that appears at random for 5-10 minutes and never at the spot.
Most people don't realise that electrical storms cost "billions" of dollars to electrical suppliers with (nuclear) plants going of line to transformers being damaged or destroyed. The first I heard about this type of research of using lasers to redirect and control electrical discharge was in the early 90's (in Japan). If you want big $$$ funding and you like big $$$ lasers this is a great research area for that.
Building anything in space is horrendously complex and expensive. The USA will be broke for the next few years so I cant see anything coming from that direction other than some toy like commercial projects (Virgin) that will die once the handful of billionaires who can afford it have taken a ride. Even though Russia is rolling in cash right now I don't think they will have enough money and expertise to pull this off in the long run. Really this needs to be a global affair with its own "standards body" so everyone can take part and a really nasty bit of work in charge to bang peoples heads together when they start arguing over bolt sizes or the colour of toilet seat lid.
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Who cares I have found the ultimate game, it's called life.
Easy time limits to stop patent camping. For example if you apply for a patent and get you have 12 months to produce a "product" based on the IP otherwise it goes into public domain. Or another one, patents not licensed (to make a product) or used for 3 years automatically go into public domain.
What a big bike stand you have...
The ink has just about dried on my "How to be a Texas patent troll" patent.
Best Pizza I have ever had was in Athens Greece, and yes I have been to Italy a few times now.
They will wheel this thing out during the Olympic opening ceremonyin Beijing and do a massive rick role
Ha take that you western dogs, I get you back good.
> Fertilized embryos and zygotes are living homo sapien organisms--not some other species, right? They're becoming something we all recognize as human, or would given food and shelter? Actually no, an embryo is a "potential human" made up of a bunch of cells with just as much relationship to a sentient human as you have to the blood that spills when you cut yourself shaving. You may say "but blood isnt a human", sorry but it is in the right hands. For example thanks to modern technology I can clone another human from your blood, thus the question can be raised are you a murderer when you destroy your own blood if you follow the thought process that an embryo is a human. Then you have other quirky realities to deal with such as 3 in 5 embryos are rejected by the mother before their third trimester is she a murdered ? In fact a sexually active woman will abort hundreds of fertalised embryos in a life time naturally (natures quality control ?). Then you have others saying a human is a sentient self aware organism, but babies become partially self aware between 18-24 months after birth and fully aware usually after 2-3 years. My personal view is the same as the law in that a child that has reached 18 weeks can not be aborted unless it is horribly deformed or puts the womans life in danger (Im so so on the rape excuse).
I catch the train and bus to work every day and I have seen maybe two... yes "TWO!!" Zunes in the last year. I have seen more people using Nokia mobile phones to listen to music than Zunes by a factor of 100. Also people keep thinking everyone listens to music when they have an iPOD. Sorry but I as a long time iPOD user listen to podcasts and audio books way more than music. So the stereo typical iPOD user only listening to music and being a pre-pubescent teenager is utter rubbish.
Its getting so bad that many of the details found on the Stazi police wiki entry can be cut and pasted straight into the FBI wiki.
You can feel for the poor sod who has to manage the set items, 1. 200lb of used chewing gum 2. 400 paper clips in various sizes. 3. Paper that morphs into a 4 door family sedan with ABS when water is added.
Oh no, my Karma just got run over by my dogma..
All things aside it just shows you Karma can screw one over when least want it to.
Dare say many a politician or despot (the only difference being one has better eating manners than the other and doesnt need a large supply of brown bags) will be very happy to hear this news. I can see the White house glowing like Vegas in future from all the well placed ultra-violet lighting.
I was listening to a radio interview with a professional house theif. When the said thief was asked what was the best deterant the reply was "a small dog as they are next to impossible to catch or bribe". After hearing this news the mental gears started whirring and I created a fake YAPPING dog security system. Its very simple with a IR motion sensor on the back and front entrance hooked into a MP3 player and a small PC speaker system. The hard part was finding a good yapping dog recording until I asked someone at the park if I could record her dog barking and she was happy to oblige once I explained why. Another trick is to have multiple varying MP3 files and make sure the MP3 player is set to shuffle so it sounds more realistic.
Lets be honest, Apple is all about controlling its consumers and hardware, so seeing Apple purchase a CPU design house doesnt surprise me at all.
Fiber is fiber is fiber. It's marginally more expensive to deploy 100 strands instead of one,
To some degree your comment is correct but fibre isnt fibre. There is a wide variety of different optical fibre from glass to plastic to all the weird doped variants that allows the Telco's to use less amplifiers on long connections.
This is a typical company FUD tactic especially when costs in reality are going down or are static (share holders don't like static income growth). In this case speeds on fibre have increased massively over the last ten years with data speeds going from cutting edge single digit gigabyte speeds to terrabyte speeds within a few years. Some may say equipment and maintenance costs have gone up but that is also FUD because fibre maintenance and distances between amplifiers has increased and over all equipment failure rates have dropped.
No, multi touch screens (the one on the iPhone is actually licensed from a German company) and mouse pads have been around for years. What Apple has patented are aspects of using a multi touch mouse pad or screen with certain UI features.
Never say such things as "Needle in a hay stack" or "One in a million" because that just red flags fate and you know it will happen.
We just gave our CEO a new laptop, that reminds me I better tell him he needs to shake it to reset.
But does it run linux?
I heard they are porting Gentoo to the Babage platform (think its called Garbage), should be finished compiling the kernel in about 15 years.
[a manager grumpily storms into a room full of smoke and dust with gaping holes in the walls and light fittings hanging from the ceiling]
Manager "What happened here I heard this unearthly explosion ? "
[a pallid skinned, slightly chubby man is sitting in the corner wearing shredded clothes and has black burn marks on his face]
BOFH "I tried to port Quake II to the Babage machine and I needed to over clock it a bit and well one of the gears on the number 5 stack jammed when it reached 24,000 rpm"
Harnessing the power from lightening is a great idea until you look at the logistics. To give you an idea its a bit like connecting a huge magical nuclear power plant to the grid that appears at random for 5-10 minutes and never at the spot.
Most people don't realise that electrical storms cost "billions" of dollars to electrical suppliers with (nuclear) plants going of line to transformers being damaged or destroyed. The first I heard about this type of research of using lasers to redirect and control electrical discharge was in the early 90's (in Japan). If you want big $$$ funding and you like big $$$ lasers this is a great research area for that.
Building anything in space is horrendously complex and expensive. The USA will be broke for the next few years so I cant see anything coming from that direction other than some toy like commercial projects (Virgin) that will die once the handful of billionaires who can afford it have taken a ride. Even though Russia is rolling in cash right now I don't think they will have enough money and expertise to pull this off in the long run. Really this needs to be a global affair with its own "standards body" so everyone can take part and a really nasty bit of work in charge to bang peoples heads together when they start arguing over bolt sizes or the colour of toilet seat lid.
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