Yes software can be protected by both patents and copyright... but should software be protected by both? I would suggest that copyright is the 'in the best interest' form of protection for software.
Patents are now and have been granted to software {or software ideas} without them truly meeting the requirements. On the other hand software is easily protected under the rules of copyright without stifling innovation nor twisting the requirements of copyright into a knots.
The article does not specify that the new technology would be under the user's complete control - in fact they even mention it could be used for DRM.
So essentially the {%please place the name of your bogie man here%} could get at your information even while the majority of users thought they were protected by this new technolgy.
Yes but here's the kicker - the idea in itself has to be novel!
And it's not. It merely uses a little bit more technology to do what was priorly done by pen, paper and lists, or in-store/etc computers oh and lists.
Corporations are flooding the patent office and the office is unfortunately failing at their task. DO I blame the poor staffers that must examine the patents - not really. Do I find fault with a system that allow the mis-use of patents... well where would you place the blame?
I've decided to file US patents on human sexual reproduction and gestation!
Now any time the Ameican people have children I get to decide how much the parents have to pay to be allowed to keep these patent violations!
Next China, then Luxemboug, after that the world!
Oh Damn; just remembered, I think patenting business ideas and software is stupid.
Actually breaking the law in full view of the authorities and with a willingness to face the consequnces is considered one of the fundamentals of liberty - ie civil dis-obidience - the right to choose to oppose an unjust law with fore-knowledge that you maybe punished by enforcement of said law.
Private partners ownership of a firm often starts with a small group of individuals owning 100% of the stock. When they wish to reward employess they can decide to take a chunk of their investment and dole it out, all they are doing at that time is expanding the company's private partnership base.
Depending on the legal jurisdiction of the company headquarters, the private partners could easily number up to 50.
When a company decides to do an IPO that's often when the private partner owners generally agree to a large scale share split. As an example every original share is now divided into 10,000 shares.
There have been a number of studies done that show that an increasing number of drivers involved in accidents are signifigantly distracted from what should be their primary task {ie controling the vehicle they are operating} by cell phones.
I'd rather something constructive was done about this well researched and documented problem, than this cell phone & brain cancer concern.
After taking a look at the article, I think it is {poorly} attempting a comparison between their prototype motor and an equivilent conventional electric motor.
It seems that the article is trying to say something to that effect with this sentence.
Testing and Finite Element Analysis show that the Parallel Path system indeed manages to not only increase the magnetic flux in the core by a factor of four over conventional electric motors, but manipulate the flux to act in the direction of motion, generating considerably more motive power than conventional motors
The claim could then be that the new motors provide better than 100% of the motive power possible of the equivilent conventinal electric motor. But I don't see where there is any data that would support that supposition - perhaps they provided it to the writer{s} but it was not correctly included in the article.
Nuclear power is the ONLY rational solution, near term.
Atually no it's not.
There have been signifigant advances in solar, wind and water power generation.
As well there has been a signifignat reduction through the use of efficiency methods either not utilized before or not marketed before this current 'oil crisis'
The world can produce a great deal of bio-diesel and ethonal - hopefully this will spur greater efforts into expanding the production and delivery facilities for these fuels as well as the mixed versions. ie gasoline- ethonal blends, etc
Not that I want to slow hybridization/efficiency efforts - all on these should be expanded by both consumer desires and by govenment incentives.
It can depends on the size of your company. I worked for a fairly small shop that specialized in Java and SQL work, because of that we became known for it in a positive way. It also was very useful because we all had a decent grounding in Java and our constant work in it had all of us improving our own skill sets quite rapidly.
But the firm had only 9 geeks, so as I said... small shop. In other situations I can see why multiple languages would be more useful than a standardized company one.
Oh - I've seen it done correctly - actualy I 've also been a bit part player in making it work correctly as well:D
But like you and others, I've also seem to many done badly enough that they slow a machine to a crawl while it's either loading the application or crunching big datasets.
Then there was that one Java project, where the database schema mapped directly to the inheritance hierarchy of the object model. Booting the application server took longer than booting the operating system. While no raging Java fan, I can't help but think that particular issue was coder ignorance writ large.
I've seen that problem before - in fact I've had to help correct that problem before - I thought that my brain was going to fry sometimes while I was reading the code;)
Please note that Bill and his wife are noted philatropists. I have seen a similar effect on a smaller scale before, when an individual has been persuaded { not coerced nor scammed, etc } into actively supporting good works through the dedicated interests and actions of their partner.
I'm not making a judgement against Bill or in his wife's favor, but the circumstances do seem to point towards her having a signifigant impact on their well noted philantropy.
The parliament does not want to reduce expenditures by 25% overall! They want to reduce the overall percentage of purchases of Microsoft software for government usage. So total expendiure could even go up, as long as the overall percentage of purchases from Microsoft goes down by 25%.
From the article "Taiwan's parliament has voted to end its dependence on Microsoft software, demanding that the government reduce purchases from the software giant by 25 percent this year."
In case you hadn't noticed... the title of the subject is "Microsoft software is not just Windows". So yes, I was and am aware that Windows is Microsot software, but it's not the only Microsoft software available.
In other words Taiwan could decide to keep the Windows operating systems and use other products on top of them instead of Microsoft office suites, databases, etc.
I'm not saying that is what they will do but it is still an option with what little information we can get from the article.
I never said that they could not choose other OSes I would be happier if they did, I was just trying to curb the excitement for the "Windows is leaving taiwan postings" with a leavening of logic.
The article doesn't say that the govenrment must reduce the use of the Windows OSes; just Microsoft software, so Taiwan could just use different databases, office suites, etc
Power steering, power brakes and artificial lighting (ie headlights) do not in general take away from driving skills - in fact they all enhance driving control without signifigantly reducing the skill required. Power steering and brakes generally mean that the driver requires less strength not less skill, artificial lighting allows people to drive in conditions that we otherwise should/could not.
Driving is a privilege not a right - people should not have technology fill in for their lack if skill and/or concern.
I used to drive professionaly, transports {tractor trailer}, school buses, furniture trucks, courier vans, taxi, etc and over the years I have taken 9 PDI { professional driver improvement} courses.
More people should have greater concern for their driving habits and more people should have their liscences revoked for their thoughtless/reckless behaviour.
It's not that I'm against technology to help drivers, it's that studies say that many drivers are now using these systems as crutches. Bah Humbug - just had to get that off my chest:(
For a number of the government employees it's not only that they stop giving a damn about anything.
It's that after the repeated shitkickings and abuse they get for giving a damn either 1)their spirit gets broken, 2) they get out of the civil service before their spirit gets broken and tehy start not gioving a damn or 3)they become real nasty/skilled individuals who the senior bureaucrats are afraid to mess with.
I believe that there was a company that developed and tried to market a device like this or mining and urban accidents, but lack of interest kept sales very low.
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Yes software can be protected by both patents and copyright ... but should software be protected by both? I would suggest that copyright is the 'in the best interest' form of protection for software.
Patents are now and have been granted to software {or software ideas} without them truly meeting the requirements. On the other hand software is easily protected under the rules of copyright without stifling innovation nor twisting the requirements of copyright into a knots.
The article does not specify that the new technology would be under the user's complete control - in fact they even mention it could be used for DRM.
So essentially the {%please place the name of your bogie man here%} could get at your information even while the majority of users thought they were protected by this new technolgy.
A very simple discussion point
Copryright is more applicable to software than Patents.
Feel free to discuss it, but I do not beleive that any person or group, has yet or will disprove the above statement.
I'm willing to engage in this discussion, furthermore I'm also willing to keep an open mind.
Yes but here's the kicker - the idea in itself has to be novel!
... well where would you place the blame?
And it's not. It merely uses a little bit more technology to do what was priorly done by pen, paper and lists, or in-store/etc computers oh and lists.
Corporations are flooding the patent office and the office is unfortunately failing at their task. DO I blame the poor staffers that must examine the patents - not really. Do I find fault with a system that allow the mis-use of patents
I've decided to file US patents on human sexual reproduction and gestation! Now any time the Ameican people have children I get to decide how much the parents have to pay to be allowed to keep these patent violations! Next China, then Luxemboug, after that the world! Oh Damn; just remembered, I think patenting business ideas and software is stupid.
Actually breaking the law in full view of the authorities and with a willingness to face the consequnces is considered one of the fundamentals of liberty - ie civil dis-obidience - the right to choose to oppose an unjust law with fore-knowledge that you maybe punished by enforcement of said law.
Private partners ownership of a firm often starts with a small group of individuals owning 100% of the stock. When they wish to reward employess they can decide to take a chunk of their investment and dole it out, all they are doing at that time is expanding the company's private partnership base.
Depending on the legal jurisdiction of the company headquarters, the private partners could easily number up to 50.
When a company decides to do an IPO that's often when the private partner owners generally agree to a large scale share split. As an example every original share is now divided into 10,000 shares.
There have been a number of studies done that show that an increasing number of drivers involved in accidents are signifigantly distracted from what should be their primary task {ie controling the vehicle they are operating} by cell phones.
I'd rather something constructive was done about this well researched and documented problem, than this cell phone & brain cancer concern.
ROFLMAO People are wondering why I am laughing so hard! Damn but they just don't get the point of April 1st.
The mental image you have burned onto my brain with those very words may take thirty years of hard-core drinking to burn away! :D
It seems that the article is trying to say something to that effect with this sentence.
The claim could then be that the new motors provide better than 100% of the motive power possible of the equivilent conventinal electric motor. But I don't see where there is any data that would support that supposition - perhaps they provided it to the writer{s} but it was not correctly included in the article.
Atually no it's not.
There have been signifigant advances in solar, wind and water power generation.
As well there has been a signifignat reduction through the use of efficiency methods either not utilized before or not marketed before this current 'oil crisis'
The world can produce a great deal of bio-diesel and ethonal - hopefully this will spur greater efforts into expanding the production and delivery facilities for these fuels as well as the mixed versions. ie gasoline- ethonal blends, etc Not that I want to slow hybridization/efficiency efforts - all on these should be expanded by both consumer desires and by govenment incentives.
It can depends on the size of your company. I worked for a fairly small shop that specialized in Java and SQL work, because of that we became known for it in a positive way. It also was very useful because we all had a decent grounding in Java and our constant work in it had all of us improving our own skill sets quite rapidly.
... small shop. In other situations I can see why multiple languages would be more useful than a standardized company one.
But the firm had only 9 geeks, so as I said
Oh - I've seen it done correctly - actualy I 've also been a bit part player in making it work correctly as well :D
But like you and others, I've also seem to many done badly enough that they slow a machine to a crawl while it's either loading the application or crunching big datasets.
Please note that Bill and his wife are noted philatropists. I have seen a similar effect on a smaller scale before, when an individual has been persuaded { not coerced nor scammed, etc } into actively supporting good works through the dedicated interests and actions of their partner.
I'm not making a judgement against Bill or in his wife's favor, but the circumstances do seem to point towards her having a signifigant impact on their well noted philantropy.
The parliament does not want to reduce expenditures by 25% overall! They want to reduce the overall percentage of purchases of Microsoft software for government usage. So total expendiure could even go up, as long as the overall percentage of purchases from Microsoft goes down by 25%.
From the article "Taiwan's parliament has voted to end its dependence on Microsoft software, demanding that the government reduce purchases from the software giant by 25 percent this year."
In case you hadn't noticed ... the title of the subject is "Microsoft software is not just Windows". So yes, I was and am aware that Windows is Microsot software, but it's not the only Microsoft software available.
In other words Taiwan could decide to keep the Windows operating systems and use other products on top of them instead of Microsoft office suites, databases, etc.
I'm not saying that is what they will do but it is still an option with what little information we can get from the article.
I never said that they could not choose other OSes I would be happier if they did, I was just trying to curb the excitement for the "Windows is leaving taiwan postings" with a leavening of logic.
The article doesn't say that the govenrment must reduce the use of the Windows OSes; just Microsoft software, so Taiwan could just use different databases, office suites, etc
Power steering, power brakes and artificial lighting (ie headlights) do not in general take away from driving skills - in fact they all enhance driving control without signifigantly reducing the skill required.
Power steering and brakes generally mean that the driver requires less strength not less skill, artificial lighting allows people to drive in conditions that we otherwise should/could not.
Driving is a privilege not a right - people should not have technology fill in for their lack if skill and/or concern. I used to drive professionaly, transports {tractor trailer}, school buses, furniture trucks, courier vans, taxi, etc and over the years I have taken 9 PDI { professional driver improvement} courses. More people should have greater concern for their driving habits and more people should have their liscences revoked for their thoughtless/reckless behaviour. It's not that I'm against technology to help drivers, it's that studies say that many drivers are now using these systems as crutches. Bah Humbug - just had to get that off my chest :(
For a number of the government employees it's not only that they stop giving a damn about anything. It's that after the repeated shitkickings and abuse they get for giving a damn either 1)their spirit gets broken, 2) they get out of the civil service before their spirit gets broken and tehy start not gioving a damn or 3)they become real nasty/skilled individuals who the senior bureaucrats are afraid to mess with.
AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!! That information doesn't shock me too much, but it does disturb me. Do you have any more background information on that?
I believe that there was a company that developed and tried to market a device like this or mining and urban accidents, but lack of interest kept sales very low.