There are a lot of cases where I'd agree with you. Example: see RIM patent issues
here
Something that we have come to know as the walkman, however, I feel is a little bit different. Portable devices did exist at the same time, but there was a good deal of engineering that went into creating a portable cassette player. From the article it also looks like he went through the trouble of creating a prototype,
unlike other frivlous patents.
Also, if we say that existing ideas can't be improved upon and patented again, we'd still be paying royalties to whoever's holding Edison's estate every time we bought a CD, just because it allows us to play recorded sound. Tangible products should be treated slightly differently than just patenting an idea.
The other reason why I side with the inventor on this one is he created a tangible product, he's not just patenting an abstract idea. These examples just go to show us how screwed up the patent system is, which I think we all agree with. I wish something was better, and I wish that our litigious society had some values other than that of currency, but I don't see that realistically changing within our lifetime.
Let's just say good triumped over evil; it just took 25 years, and the vicotry is not really what this guy deserved. But the grundig story is raly interesting thoguh.
So that means the bears that do survive will be better swimmers than previous. Evolution wins again!
You speak of Darwin as if you are T.H.Huxley. Yes, the polar bears that survive all have the common thread that they are better swimmers, but this is combined with other factors. Think about it. They are in search of food. How about if I set you out to swim just a mile with no food. Last time I swam a mile, I had plenty of food before and afterward. So they were able to survive the swim, yes, but likely because they had food more recently. And you can't go off saying that the ones that captured food before they swam are better hunters too, because food is few and far between up there, it's more a matter of luck than skill. Polar bears have evolved to go long periods of time between meals jsut for this reason.
The process of natural selection takes time, thousands of years, to pick out desirable traits. And these desirable traits are mutations in strands of DNA that seem to give creatures an advantage over same members of their species. The mutations tend to give slight advantages over other members of the species. Also it takes millions of years to beak off a new species because of one desirable mutation. Single generation problems like this are not how evolution happens; it's restriction of the gene pool.
If you still don't believe me, think of the people you know, think of people who don't quite seem to fit their family, almost like they were adopted, they don't always inherit the traits of their parents. Polar bears are the same way. Just because mama bear and papa bear are good swimmers, this doesn't mean baby bear will be too.
Interesting story, I was given a pre-release copy of Office XP a while back, I had it maybe a month before the final release hit shelves (benefits of working retail). This was a one year subscription which Microsoft decided not to market in the states, and as a result, they gave it to us at their sales training event (Part of Microsoft Road Show). My buddies and I installed it, and of course outlook crashes. I had InterDev, so it asked me if I wanted to debug, and when it brought me to the error, i was a good consumer, and recorded all the info I could (this was before bug reporting) and I called Microsoft. This issue also happened after a reformat and on other computers, so it wasn't just me.
Of course they wanted to charge me $35.00 just to speak to a tech. When I explained the problem, a little bit better, they transferred me around, and they asked me for $600.00 (USD). Needless to say I hung up. I was not paying 600 to report a bug in software that requires a new build to fix. No wonder they never released the Office XP subscription, it had bugs, so they gave it to the retailers instead.
A couple months later when I got Office XP professional with front page, there was no error. Thank you software fairy!
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The sad thing is, the article is not that long. This was also commented on,
almost verbatim. and speculation(and jokes) about what Google will do with your
number with that term evaluate in there, they can leave it in bets forever to
hold on to your number, and build a customer profile, but still, can't share
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Hence why they keep things in beta. it's good business practice. The computers dell sells are always in beta. (but now that tehy have AMD availlible for the N series that may change)
Hahah, I had to look up MaxHeadroom, but that is funny. It was a little before my time, (I was 3 when it was on the air). Having everything on demand, even the newscast twenty minutes in the future is pretty cool.
It will still take some time for it to become common place. And yes there may be some carriers using IPTV now, but I was unable it find documentation quickly to back me up on that. And I have yet to find a carrier who has the option of fiber right into your home for your average cable TV user. It's not about what's possible now, but what is commonplace or probable now.
I agree with the fact that Cisco is looking toward the conversion of data systems. Right now companies are offering cable TV, internet, and phone all through coax. In about 10 years from now, I predict that television entertainment will still exist, but it will evolve into something that cable carriers will stream into homes using their network connection to your home via coaxial connections, or via fiber. It makes perfect sense for Cisco to go into this market. it secures another market for them in the future, they can offer some of the equipment to make such the switch. And besides, who goes out to the store to buy a cable box? They're often provided by the cable companies themselves to be compatible (and expandable) with their existing infrastructure.
The software is where form follows fuction. as posted in other sections of this thread, going open source allows tehm to use more software packages that are open source and free. Wit OS X they will not have the same choice of packages.
Well, the Intel and AMD systems are similar enough that having OS X run on it shouldn't be that hard. And why not? for most of my machines, i've had better luck with AMD.
Open Chipsets? Are there such a thing? You might as well build a whole new architecture. The foundation of this project is standing on the shoulders of older technology that is somewhat tried and true, and now cheap to manufacture. It's pointless to design new chipsets from scratch.
Where does it say they want to know how it ticks? The idea is to get the applications of PC's to the third world, not just to get the computer to the third world.
I'd rather take a collection of old PC's and ship them overseas to discover PC technology. What better than troubleshooting real PC's on different platforms, and different OS's? They are standardized as a Teaching tool about other things, not just a tech Ed course.
It's about tasks the kids will perform, this is true. I started by piecemealing my machines together, taught myself the basics, all without internet. Now I am a consultant specializing in medical systems. I run Windows, Macs, Linux and Novell in different places. My users' tasks are very different but once the users get the basics down, switching platforms from one to another always has a curve, (as stated).
These computers are going to places where they are not learning to be administrators (no need to install slackware and compile packages), and also keep in mind, this project has structure. Open source, yes, but for simple tasks, such as using GIMP, or accessing resources online, typing papers, emailing, and other school oriented tasks, ANY operating system is sufficient with the appropriate training.
Also, I am going back to school to become a math teacher, and I am almost done at this point. Let me point out that students are normally using computers for simple tasks, even in most college levels (not counting advanced research in the hard sciences, psychology, math, and computer programming).
Finally, these students in third world countries, chances are their next exposure to a computer is NOT going to be windows or Mac at their employment. Smaller third world countries fortunate enough to have computer systems will be running open source (because of budget), or Novell. I have yet to see general public third world citizens running windows or Mac.
They made the right choice, for these reasons, and the power consumption reasons mentioned above too. Good job MIT. Let me know next time I'm needed. Thanks.
they announced that back in June. I remember seeing the headline on my birthday (the 5th) while I was up in Boston. With a little digging, I know you can find it.
i thought that my be my case at first too, but i normally got slower speeds for my coonection. I did enjoy haviing amlost double the bandwith than i normally got, whcih can't be explained by that. Now teh compression could do that.
I did get a "speed" 115,200 baud on my 56K on occasion. The COM port at the ISP connected at that speed, but the actual line speed did not perform that high. I DID get more than 10 kiloBYTES down (as opposed to bits) while downloading, so something was really funky. And it was all due to a cheap poorly engineered modem that I installed in my computer. My parents were wondering how come they didn't get phone calls for a couple of days though....
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Something that we have come to know as the walkman, however, I feel is a little bit different. Portable devices did exist at the same time, but there was a good deal of engineering that went into creating a portable cassette player. From the article it also looks like he went through the trouble of creating a prototype, unlike other frivlous patents.
Also, if we say that existing ideas can't be improved upon and patented again, we'd still be paying royalties to whoever's holding Edison's estate every time we bought a CD, just because it allows us to play recorded sound. Tangible products should be treated slightly differently than just patenting an idea. The other reason why I side with the inventor on this one is he created a tangible product, he's not just patenting an abstract idea. These examples just go to show us how screwed up the patent system is, which I think we all agree with. I wish something was better, and I wish that our litigious society had some values other than that of currency, but I don't see that realistically changing within our lifetime.
Let's just say good triumped over evil; it just took 25 years, and the vicotry is not really what this guy deserved. But the grundig story is raly interesting thoguh.
You speak of Darwin as if you are T.H.Huxley. Yes, the polar bears that survive all have the common thread that they are better swimmers, but this is combined with other factors. Think about it. They are in search of food. How about if I set you out to swim just a mile with no food. Last time I swam a mile, I had plenty of food before and afterward. So they were able to survive the swim, yes, but likely because they had food more recently. And you can't go off saying that the ones that captured food before they swam are better hunters too, because food is few and far between up there, it's more a matter of luck than skill. Polar bears have evolved to go long periods of time between meals jsut for this reason.
The process of natural selection takes time, thousands of years, to pick out desirable traits. And these desirable traits are mutations in strands of DNA that seem to give creatures an advantage over same members of their species. The mutations tend to give slight advantages over other members of the species. Also it takes millions of years to beak off a new species because of one desirable mutation. Single generation problems like this are not how evolution happens; it's restriction of the gene pool.
If you still don't believe me, think of the people you know, think of people who don't quite seem to fit their family, almost like they were adopted, they don't always inherit the traits of their parents. Polar bears are the same way. Just because mama bear and papa bear are good swimmers, this doesn't mean baby bear will be too.
Of course they wanted to charge me $35.00 just to speak to a tech. When I explained the problem, a little bit better, they transferred me around, and they asked me for $600.00 (USD). Needless to say I hung up. I was not paying 600 to report a bug in software that requires a new build to fix. No wonder they never released the Office XP subscription, it had bugs, so they gave it to the retailers instead.
A couple months later when I got Office XP professional with front page, there was no error. Thank you software fairy!
Is there software on the moon that is vunerable?
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The sad thing is, the article is not that long. This was also commented on, almost verbatim. and speculation(and jokes) about what Google will do with your number with that term evaluate in there, they can leave it in bets forever to hold on to your number, and build a customer profile, but still, can't share it unless you let them (stupid idea).
Hence why they keep things in beta. it's good business practice. The computers dell sells are always in beta. (but now that tehy have AMD availlible for the N series that may change)
Umm, you still need to provide them with a phone number, and it's only for advertisements.
Ummm, missing the scarcasm.
Hahah, I had to look up MaxHeadroom, but that is funny. It was a little before my time, (I was 3 when it was on the air). Having everything on demand, even the newscast twenty minutes in the future is pretty cool.
It will still take some time for it to become common place. And yes there may be some carriers using IPTV now, but I was unable it find documentation quickly to back me up on that. And I have yet to find a carrier who has the option of fiber right into your home for your average cable TV user. It's not about what's possible now, but what is commonplace or probable now.
I agree with the fact that Cisco is looking toward the conversion of data systems. Right now companies are offering cable TV, internet, and phone all through coax. In about 10 years from now, I predict that television entertainment will still exist, but it will evolve into something that cable carriers will stream into homes using their network connection to your home via coaxial connections, or via fiber. It makes perfect sense for Cisco to go into this market. it secures another market for them in the future, they can offer some of the equipment to make such the switch. And besides, who goes out to the store to buy a cable box? They're often provided by the cable companies themselves to be compatible (and expandable) with their existing infrastructure.
how can reasons be cheapend?
hilarious.
Did anybody here paint linux as a bad thing?? That user may be excused.
The software is where form follows fuction. as posted in other sections of this thread, going open source allows tehm to use more software packages that are open source and free. Wit OS X they will not have the same choice of packages.
Well, the Intel and AMD systems are similar enough that having OS X run on it shouldn't be that hard. And why not? for most of my machines, i've had better luck with AMD.
Open Chipsets? Are there such a thing? You might as well build a whole new architecture. The foundation of this project is standing on the shoulders of older technology that is somewhat tried and true, and now cheap to manufacture. It's pointless to design new chipsets from scratch.
I'd rather take a collection of old PC's and ship them overseas to discover PC technology. What better than troubleshooting real PC's on different platforms, and different OS's? They are standardized as a Teaching tool about other things, not just a tech Ed course.
It's about tasks the kids will perform, this is true. I started by piecemealing my machines together, taught myself the basics, all without internet. Now I am a consultant specializing in medical systems. I run Windows, Macs, Linux and Novell in different places. My users' tasks are very different but once the users get the basics down, switching platforms from one to another always has a curve, (as stated).
These computers are going to places where they are not learning to be administrators (no need to install slackware and compile packages), and also keep in mind, this project has structure. Open source, yes, but for simple tasks, such as using GIMP, or accessing resources online, typing papers, emailing, and other school oriented tasks, ANY operating system is sufficient with the appropriate training.
Also, I am going back to school to become a math teacher, and I am almost done at this point. Let me point out that students are normally using computers for simple tasks, even in most college levels (not counting advanced research in the hard sciences, psychology, math, and computer programming).
Finally, these students in third world countries, chances are their next exposure to a computer is NOT going to be windows or Mac at their employment. Smaller third world countries fortunate enough to have computer systems will be running open source (because of budget), or Novell. I have yet to see general public third world citizens running windows or Mac.
They made the right choice, for these reasons, and the power consumption reasons mentioned above too. Good job MIT. Let me know next time I'm needed. Thanks.
they announced that back in June. I remember seeing the headline on my birthday (the 5th) while I was up in Boston. With a little digging, I know you can find it.
i thought that my be my case at first too, but i normally got slower speeds for my coonection. I did enjoy haviing amlost double the bandwith than i normally got, whcih can't be explained by that. Now teh compression could do that.
I did get a "speed" 115,200 baud on my 56K on occasion. The COM port at the ISP connected at that speed, but the actual line speed did not perform that high. I DID get more than 10 kiloBYTES down (as opposed to bits) while downloading, so something was really funky. And it was all due to a cheap poorly engineered modem that I installed in my computer. My parents were wondering how come they didn't get phone calls for a couple of days though....
we called this ISDN.
note to self - remove the yellow sticky next to the router in the wiring closet.