I don't care at all. I live in the EU, there are no software patents in my country an there won't be any in the future no matter how much Nokia wants it. Some unknown company claims that it holds the patents of JPEG? Who cares? Microsoft wants to sue me because they have the patent to doubleclick? I am so scared! I don't need to worry about that whole SCO/JPEG/etc stuff.
Debrecen Airport (DEB) != Budapest Airport (BUD). TFA is about DEB, a small county airport which serves only 2-3 scheduled flights a day, most of them are domestic (Schedule: http://www.airportdebrecen.hu/flights). So I have to say I agree with the original poster, although I guess the general incompetence of my compatriots assures that there will be no working RFID system at DEB in the next few (hundred) years, so it's a little early to put on a tinfoil hat.
Even if software patents does not exist here in Europe, European software companies lose the probably biggest software market in the world by violating US software patent legislation, so I guess it worth it only if they are wrinting software for domestic use, with no intent to sell it overseas.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
This is quite possible, since the magnetic field is not conservative (=the energy energy is only determined by the position). Example of a conservative field: gravitation, because if a mass goes up and down a hill it has a net energy gain of zero.
I'm pretty sure that there is a mathematical proof which says that the integrated of any closed curve in an electromagnetic field must be greater or equal zero, meaning that even if the field isn't conservative you definitively can't gain energy from it. A good starting point would be the Ostrogradsky-Gauss theorem.
Actually "scientific verification" means that you have to proove that your product works anytime, anywhere (saying that you have seen it working yesterday in you home doesn't count as a proof) If you can make it work in a lab environment, you have a scientific verification.
Well, AFAIK here in Europe (and I mean Continental Europe, excluding the UK) the term "Legal Precedent" does not exist. Every case is different with its own circumstances and as such handled as unrelated to others, therefore you can't refer to previous cases, even if they are the same in practice. Unfortunately, the members of committees like EPO are usually appointed by the member states with political intention, not by professional considerations, however member states appoint them individually, so lobbyst like Nokia (which is a major supporter of software patents in the EU) have to pressurize each government. For example here in Hungary that won't be a problem, because there is a major Nokia cell phone and battery factory and I guess the goverment don't want Nokia decide to relocate it to China.
I am not very familiar with US legislation but here in Yurop courts can't create laws, they can decide only based on existing laws. So if the legislation (in this case: the European Comitee and the European Parliament, and later the national parliaments) don't create those laws, how could they decide anything?
Actually both Steven and Istvan has its origins in tha latin name "Stephan". However in the hungarian language words starting with two consonant are really rare and sound weird to the hungarians ear, so I suppose thats why it gained an "I" over the centuries.
...scientists discovered that beta code contains bugs!
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Now, a few years down the road WGA is going to force me to reinstall--now that I have many important business apps installed.
You don't have to if you have a legal copy. You can always change the product key of an installed instance of XP using the registry and msoobe.exe. More info here: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5034890.h tml
For example here in Hungary we don't have enough wind or light level to make building a wind or solar power generator practical. We need other sources of energy. I guess there are lot of areas like this on the world.
... so I am free to troll anybody. However, if I troll a US citizen on the web and start a flame war and then he or she replies me anything naughty, am I free to sue him or her?
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I don't care at all. I live in the EU, there are no software patents in my country an there won't be any in the future no matter how much Nokia wants it. Some unknown company claims that it holds the patents of JPEG? Who cares? Microsoft wants to sue me because they have the patent to doubleclick? I am so scared! I don't need to worry about that whole SCO/JPEG/etc stuff.
Debrecen Airport (DEB) != Budapest Airport (BUD). TFA is about DEB, a small county airport which serves only 2-3 scheduled flights a day, most of them are domestic (Schedule: http://www.airportdebrecen.hu/flights). So I have to say I agree with the original poster, although I guess the general incompetence of my compatriots assures that there will be no working RFID system at DEB in the next few (hundred) years, so it's a little early to put on a tinfoil hat.
Even if software patents does not exist here in Europe, European software companies lose the probably biggest software market in the world by violating US software patent legislation, so I guess it worth it only if they are wrinting software for domestic use, with no intent to sell it overseas.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said. This is quite possible, since the magnetic field is not conservative (=the energy energy is only determined by the position). Example of a conservative field: gravitation, because if a mass goes up and down a hill it has a net energy gain of zero.
I'm pretty sure that there is a mathematical proof which says that the integrated of any closed curve in an electromagnetic field must be greater or equal zero, meaning that even if the field isn't conservative you definitively can't gain energy from it. A good starting point would be the Ostrogradsky-Gauss theorem.
Actually "scientific verification" means that you have to proove that your product works anytime, anywhere (saying that you have seen it working yesterday in you home doesn't count as a proof) If you can make it work in a lab environment, you have a scientific verification.
Well, AFAIK here in Europe (and I mean Continental Europe, excluding the UK) the term "Legal Precedent" does not exist. Every case is different with its own circumstances and as such handled as unrelated to others, therefore you can't refer to previous cases, even if they are the same in practice. Unfortunately, the members of committees like EPO are usually appointed by the member states with political intention, not by professional considerations, however member states appoint them individually, so lobbyst like Nokia (which is a major supporter of software patents in the EU) have to pressurize each government. For example here in Hungary that won't be a problem, because there is a major Nokia cell phone and battery factory and I guess the goverment don't want Nokia decide to relocate it to China.
I am not very familiar with US legislation but here in Yurop courts can't create laws, they can decide only based on existing laws. So if the legislation (in this case: the European Comitee and the European Parliament, and later the national parliaments) don't create those laws, how could they decide anything?
Actually both Steven and Istvan has its origins in tha latin name "Stephan". However in the hungarian language words starting with two consonant are really rare and sound weird to the hungarians ear, so I suppose thats why it gained an "I" over the centuries.
...scientists discovered that beta code contains bugs!
Now, a few years down the road WGA is going to force me to reinstall--now that I have many important business apps installed.
You don't have to if you have a legal copy. You can always change the product key of an installed instance of XP using the registry and msoobe.exe. More info here: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5034890.h tml
For example here in Hungary we don't have enough wind or light level to make building a wind or solar power generator practical. We need other sources of energy. I guess there are lot of areas like this on the world.
... so I am free to troll anybody. However, if I troll a US citizen on the web and start a flame war and then he or she replies me anything naughty, am I free to sue him or her?