I bet there will be the usual "I am legend" zombie jokes now. Seriously, while there are dangers in using a virus for gene therapy.. most viruses.. in fact a good 99% of them are handily defeated by the immune system. Also not all viruses spread easily. Furthermore when they are used in gene therapy their genes are removef are severely crippled
It does do away with the requirement that the invention be new. You can legally obtain a patent if you were the second person to come up with an invention.
Uh, ideas are patentable. You didn't know that? Patents don't go to the first person who builds something. A lot of patented things have never been built. In fact most software patents are obtained before the software is even written.
No there hasn't been. Waste management is one of the hardest problems. Until waste management techniques were invented, civilizations could not advance.. disease would wipe them out. Simply burying shit is not a good waste management method. I mean, did you even account for the water table? What happens when disease spreads into the water table and then the water supply? The main problem Africa is facing is the spread of disease, which is exactly the problem faced in Europe before they implemented good waste management. When a society has a large disease burden, most able bodied and caring persons end up having to take care of sick relatives instead of working or getting an education. This causes a vicious cycle of poverty, lack of education, and other problems.
So Apple is just protecting itself from seeing the HTML spec and patenting it themselves.
There is a new law in the pipeline that will allow patents to be granted to companies even if someone else came up with the idea first. They have to sign something saying they independently developed the idea without seeing the prior work. That means the patent system is changing from First to Invent to "First Inventor to File".. to make that law sound constitutional, they have redefined inventor to mean anyone who comes up with something independently. Obviously such a law is heavily in favor of companies with money. So, for example if you invent something.. but don't file a patent for it.. even if you describe your invention in detail on the internet.. a company can file a patent afterwards on the exact same invention as long as there is "reasonable grounds" to believe that the company didn't see your posting on the internet. Note, this obviously won't work both ways because 1) companies alway file patents immediately 2) with their top lawyers companies can prove their invention was well known. It will also allow companies to file patents on things written in books that weren't already patented. It's all to make life easier for the patent examiner.. no more bothering with checking prior art or googling a patent filing to see if someone else had the idea first.. now they just check the patent database then do a quick Lexis search of printed published media issue the patent! No more googling -- which is where a lot of new ideas exist.
The law is going to be a dream law for patent trolls.
Just google First Inventor to File for more on this topic. It's probably too late to do anything about it though.
If the new law was in place in 2006.. Apple could have patented the idea of making a touchscreen smartphone with a screen larger than 2.5" inches. The reason Apple couldn't patent it was because the idea of large touchscreen phones were posted on the internet and in gadget blogs (including slashdot) by people who wanted them well before Apple served their need. But if this new law was in place, all Apple would have had to do is to claim they never saw the postings and file a patent on it.
To "streamline" the patent granting process, Congress has redefined "inventor" to mean any person who independently comes up with an invention. So a person can claim they independently came up with an invention.. therefore under the law someone who tries to patent an idea that's in the HTML spec is eligible for a patent because the law states that any "inventor" (as redefined) who is first to file is able to patent it. This makes it easier and cheaper for them to grant patents without having to do time consuming and costly prior art searches.
The law is called the America Invents Act and it has already passed Senate and House and is in reconciliation. Google it.
As long as it doesn't cause read/writes to a disk then it's fine. Also if it's running on a tablet or phone or any other kind of device where battery life is important or even low, it should detect that and throttle back. Maybe that sorta info should be accessible securely via Javascript to help enable that.
Part of the point of confessing is that it keeps you from doing crazy shit because you know u have to tell the priest that crap eventually. It can help keep you on the straight and narrow.
An iOS app however would feel more like you're announcing stuff to the world and getting attention from an anonymous fan or fans. It's totally different and has the opposite effect.
The Catholic church, though they may be wrong about the existence of a sky God, is correct on this one.
I agree with you that if they were fair in the application of the standard the Bible should be removed too. One thing I want to point out is that Lot didn't voluntary sleep with his daughters.. so him being a righteous man stands as a valid point in the ancient fairy tale collection. Also, that one correction doesn't negate all the other valid contradictions and fucked up stuff in the Bible. Just stated the correction so you won't be attacked by pedantic people when making a similar point in the future.
Densities are fine. The main problem is lowering the cost. They need to drop the price by an order of magnitude. I am sure it costs way less than that to manufacture.. they just have to pay back all the research and equipment capital costs and build more production lines. Once they do that it will be dirt cheap. I remember when LCD monitors were a couple thousand bucks. And hard drives were far more expensive than SSDs are today.. and that was only 15 years ago.
For example an OCZ Technology 250 GB SSD is $450.. I paid around $400 for a 400 Megabyte drive in 1995. That's works out to hard disks back then being nearly 5 times the price per megabyte of SSD drives today.
On point number 6, we can choose to have farms instead.. (since even if everyone owns 10,000 square feet of land.. there is still 4/5ths of the earths land area left to put farms on.. even after putting farms in.. we still have 50% of the land area on which to do nothing..one human can live off the farm product of 20,000 square feet a year.. I calculated 10,000 sq based on crop yield and soil fertility assumptions.. assuming we recapture the minerals used to fertilize.. which isn't too hard to do).
Under the following achievable assumptions, I would actually like to see someone prove that we cannot sustain 100 billion humans for 100,000 years.
1. We build enough solar panels to produce all the Earth's energy. Every home shall have solar panel roofs.. this would provide more than 7 times the world's current enrgy consumption. I can't find the link that proves this.. but if you google it you will find a site that shows covering an area in a desert the size of Rhode Island will provide all the Earth's energy needs (including the energy extracted from oil).
2. We recycle all materials in solar or hopefully nuclear fusion power plants. Though for some minerals it's plain ridiculous to claim we'll run out.. for example.. 10% of the Earth's crust is Aluminum, claiming we will run out of Aluminum is like saying we will run out of sand or Silicon. Same thing with carbon with which we can make plastics.. though it may be cheaper to recycle.
3. Nobody consumes more than 30 kilowatts of electricity a day (I consumed 15 in the winter when I lived in NY..so 30 is generous)
4. We set up solar or hopefully nuclear fusion powered desalination plants and pipe the water inland. All the salt form the water is saved and then remixed with the waste run off water and put back in the ocean.. this ensures there is no change in ocean salinity (even locally because it will be spread out in distro points).
5. We setup up solar or hopefully nuclear fusion powered waste treatment plants that break up via incineration poisons into the constituent elements which can safely be returning remixed into the soil and mines from whence the original elements came.
6. We produce the twelve essential proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and other nutrients artificially using energy.. the same way plants do it but without the toxins that plants use to prevent themselves from being eaten.
7. On average we live in 3500 square foot homes with a 6000 square foot yard (or vice versa depending on preference).
I agree, but I wish this was released after Star Wars for Blu Ray was released. Now George Lucas either won't release it or will release it with some updated key making existing Blu RAy players obsolete.
Oh noes! if you remove the self gravity the diamond will collapse? What a ripoff. That's why diamonds that rely on the electromagnetic force are much better.
Wait a second, how do you remove the self gravity of a 4000 km wide solid object of high density?
Ask her to write down her thoughts, past experiences and decisions (good and bad) and opinions, and especially reasons for having those opinions and how she feels when about stuff.
One thing though, you need to be careful that future people don't elevate somethings about her and derive wrong opinions of how they should live their lives. In other words, you need to preserve the faults too even things she regrets.. which can be a difficult thing to do.. but ultimately it's equally as important as the good stuff.
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Thank Darwin.
I bet there will be the usual "I am legend" zombie jokes now. Seriously, while there are dangers in using a virus for gene therapy .. most viruses .. in fact a good 99% of them are handily defeated by the immune system. Also not all viruses spread easily. Furthermore when they are used in gene therapy their genes are removef are severely crippled
It does do away with the requirement that the invention be new. You can legally obtain a patent if you were the second person to come up with an invention.
Uh, ideas are patentable. You didn't know that? Patents don't go to the first person who builds something. A lot of patented things have never been built. In fact most software patents are obtained before the software is even written.
No there hasn't been. Waste management is one of the hardest problems. Until waste management techniques were invented, civilizations could not advance .. disease would wipe them out. Simply burying shit is not a good waste management method. I mean, did you even account for the water table? What happens when disease spreads into the water table and then the water supply? The main problem Africa is facing is the spread of disease, which is exactly the problem faced in Europe before they implemented good waste management. When a society has a large disease burden, most able bodied and caring persons end up having to take care of sick relatives instead of working or getting an education. This causes a vicious cycle of poverty, lack of education, and other problems.
Brown Splash of Death .. nasty, lol.
So Apple is just protecting itself from seeing the HTML spec and patenting it themselves.
There is a new law in the pipeline that will allow patents to be granted to companies even if someone else came up with the idea first. They have to sign something saying they independently developed the idea without seeing the prior work. That means the patent system is changing from First to Invent to "First Inventor to File" .. to make that law sound constitutional, they have redefined inventor to mean anyone who comes up with something independently. Obviously such a law is heavily in favor of companies with money. So, for example if you invent something .. but don't file a patent for it.. even if you describe your invention in detail on the internet .. a company can file a patent afterwards on the exact same invention as long as there is "reasonable grounds" to believe that the company didn't see your posting on the internet. Note, this obviously won't work both ways because 1) companies alway file patents immediately 2) with their top lawyers companies can prove their invention was well known. It will also allow companies to file patents on things written in books that weren't already patented. It's all to make life easier for the patent examiner .. no more bothering with checking prior art or googling a patent filing to see if someone else had the idea first .. now they just check the patent database then do a quick Lexis search of printed published media issue the patent! No more googling -- which is where a lot of new ideas exist.
The law is going to be a dream law for patent trolls.
Just google First Inventor to File for more on this topic. It's probably too late to do anything about it though.
If the new law was in place in 2006 .. Apple could have patented the idea of making a touchscreen smartphone with a screen larger than 2.5" inches. The reason Apple couldn't patent it was because the idea of large touchscreen phones were posted on the internet and in gadget blogs (including slashdot) by people who wanted them well before Apple served their need. But if this new law was in place, all Apple would have had to do is to claim they never saw the postings and file a patent on it.
To "streamline" the patent granting process, Congress has redefined "inventor" to mean any person who independently comes up with an invention. So a person can claim they independently came up with an invention .. therefore under the law someone who tries to patent an idea that's in the HTML spec is eligible for a patent because the law states that any "inventor" (as redefined) who is first to file is able to patent it. This makes it easier and cheaper for them to grant patents without having to do time consuming and costly prior art searches.
The law is called the America Invents Act and it has already passed Senate and House and is in reconciliation. Google it.
but I think we can all agree it's a damn good one.
100,000 monkeys for a Bush speech
As long as it doesn't cause read/writes to a disk then it's fine. Also if it's running on a tablet or phone or any other kind of device where battery life is important or even low, it should detect that and throttle back. Maybe that sorta info should be accessible securely via Javascript to help enable that.
Why do people say "I'll/We'll be happy to [__insert_pain_in_the_ass_here__] ".
They never really mean it. I mean, for example why would google be happy to inconvenience themselves .. seriously? Feel good corporate speak. /rant off
Part of the point of confessing is that it keeps you from doing crazy shit because you know u have to tell the priest that crap eventually. It can help keep you on the straight and narrow.
An iOS app however would feel more like you're announcing stuff to the world and getting attention from an anonymous fan or fans. It's totally different and has the opposite effect.
The Catholic church, though they may be wrong about the existence of a sky God, is correct on this one.
I agree with you that if they were fair in the application of the standard the Bible should be removed too. One thing I want to point out is that Lot didn't voluntary sleep with his daughters .. so him being a righteous man stands as a valid point in the ancient fairy tale collection. Also, that one correction doesn't negate all the other valid contradictions and fucked up stuff in the Bible. Just stated the correction so you won't be attacked by pedantic people when making a similar point in the future.
So it dual boots? press the option key or something to get into Windows and play Crysis?
What I mean by densities are fine is not that we don't need more denisty .. of course we do .. but right now it's price that's the most urgent need.
Densities are fine. The main problem is lowering the cost. They need to drop the price by an order of magnitude. I am sure it costs way less than that to manufacture .. they just have to pay back all the research and equipment capital costs and build more production lines. Once they do that it will be dirt cheap. I remember when LCD monitors were a couple thousand bucks. And hard drives were far more expensive than SSDs are today .. and that was only 15 years ago.
For example an OCZ Technology 250 GB SSD is $450 .. I paid around $400 for a 400 Megabyte drive in 1995. That's works out to hard disks back then being nearly 5 times the price per megabyte of SSD drives today.
Ever heard of functional MRI ?
On point number 6, we can choose to have farms instead .. (since even if everyone owns 10,000 square feet of land .. there is still 4/5ths of the earths land area left to put farms on .. even after putting farms in .. we still have 50% of the land area on which to do nothing ..one human can live off the farm product of 20,000 square feet a year .. I calculated 10,000 sq based on crop yield and soil fertility assumptions .. assuming we recapture the minerals used to fertilize .. which isn't too hard to do).
Under the following achievable assumptions, I would actually like to see someone prove that we cannot sustain 100 billion humans for 100,000 years.
1. We build enough solar panels to produce all the Earth's energy. Every home shall have solar panel roofs .. this would provide more than 7 times the world's current enrgy consumption. I can't find the link that proves this .. but if you google it you will find a site that shows covering an area in a desert the size of Rhode Island will provide all the Earth's energy needs (including the energy extracted from oil).
2. We recycle all materials in solar or hopefully nuclear fusion power plants. Though for some minerals it's plain ridiculous to claim we'll run out .. for example .. 10% of the Earth's crust is Aluminum, claiming we will run out of Aluminum is like saying we will run out of sand or Silicon. Same thing with carbon with which we can make plastics .. though it may be cheaper to recycle.
3. Nobody consumes more than 30 kilowatts of electricity a day (I consumed 15 in the winter when I lived in NY ..so 30 is generous)
4. We set up solar or hopefully nuclear fusion powered desalination plants and pipe the water inland. All the salt form the water is saved and then remixed with the waste run off water and put back in the ocean .. this ensures there is no change in ocean salinity (even locally because it will be spread out in distro points).
5. We setup up solar or hopefully nuclear fusion powered waste treatment plants that break up via incineration poisons into the constituent elements which can safely be returning remixed into the soil and mines from whence the original elements came.
6. We produce the twelve essential proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and other nutrients artificially using energy .. the same way plants do it but without the toxins that plants use to prevent themselves from being eaten.
7. On average we live in 3500 square foot homes with a 6000 square foot yard (or vice versa depending on preference).
I agree, but I wish this was released after Star Wars for Blu Ray was released. Now George Lucas either won't release it or will release it with some updated key making existing Blu RAy players obsolete.
LOL for backing up statement with evidence.
Oh noes! if you remove the self gravity the diamond will collapse? What a ripoff. That's why diamonds that rely on the electromagnetic force are much better.
Wait a second, how do you remove the self gravity of a 4000 km wide solid object of high density?
Ask her to write down her thoughts, past experiences and decisions (good and bad) and opinions, and especially reasons for having those opinions and how she feels when about stuff.
One thing though, you need to be careful that future people don't elevate somethings about her and derive wrong opinions of how they should live their lives. In other words, you need to preserve the faults too even things she regrets.. which can be a difficult thing to do .. but ultimately it's equally as important as the good stuff.
It's George Lucas' movie. He's the author isn't he? Make your own fork of the movie if you like. Though the movie isn't GPL.