The internal mail people then collect the Transit envelopes, place them in a big rubberised bag with the destination office on it, seal it with a tamper-evident plastic tag, and then hand the bag to the TNT driver. I know as I did this as a summer job when I was a student:-)
I'm an engineer, not a lawyer. I drafted a patent application (WO/2007/039764) - the key point is to make sure everything is written as clearly and unambiguously as possible. This is through my employment rather than doing it individually but the principle is the same.
The problem is that every country has its own patent system, so you need several applications, with different rules for each. For example, in the US and only in the US the applicant can't be a company but instead you have to apply for the patent and then after that it is transferred to the company (generally for one dollar). Each country charges its fees and carries out an examination. Now, if you are interested in small scale work in your own country it would be eminently doable, but in a business such as the one I'm in, all your customers are international and so you do need the international protection. As with any international legal work you can't know the individual rules of every country unless you're a specialist.
As one of the earlier posters said, examiners aren't experts and so bring up apparent prior art which to the skilled man IS different. They raised any previous patents involving spirals and catalysts even if the concept was completely different (such as being used as an Archimedes Screw to lift pellets - an idea that's thousands of years old!)
I can sure as hell agree that there are people from some websites that I have no interest in meeting.
The point is that people put their interests on their FB profiles. So rather than just sitting around typing on there, I'm learning to scuba dive with someone. And found a local Hash House Harriers club through someone on there that has no website or local advertising.
I'm not trying to sound like an evangelist for it - I was dubious about its value for a long time. But as I said it is an additional avenue for meeting new people. In addition, I don't have internet access at home, so it is not like I spend my free time browsing FB.
I have moved 5000 miles across the Atlantic with work on a project. I'm on Facebook, and through the local network on there I've made some good friends - because it's not primarily a dating site it's a good way to get to know people without the desperation / pressure that dating sites can have. And without the pressure, one of my friends has become more than just a friend.
It's been good because the nature of my work means that otherwise I'd just end up hanging out with other expats, and after a month or two of steak and ribs and beer you yearn for a bit of variety.
Aside from this it has also been a good way to find people from school I drifted out of contact with over the last 10 years. Obviously there are people on there that I don't want to talk to, but then I don't need to.
It doesn't replace normal social interactions, but adds an extra possibility for meeting people you wouldn't otherwise get to know.
The gp talked about "revenue" of $300 per user over 10 years. I interpreted this as in fact referring to earnings, given the context. Obviously price:turnover would be much lower than P:E.
As it is, I also would not invest in tech stocks such as these (except where they fall in my tracker, but as most are US rather than British I don't have as much exposure there)
Looking at your figures, with $150k EBITDA, let's allow say 50% tax, interest etc for a profit of $75k. Discounting at say 7% per annum real value would give me a quick and dirty valuation of $75k/7%, or around $1.1 million.
Basically we are saying the same thing but your correct use of revenue vs my use in the gp's terms got in the way!
Let's look through the DJIA, easily seen on finance.yahoo.com:
Alcoa's price:earnings ratio over the trailing twelve months is 14.27 AIG is 10.93 American Express is 17.89 Boeing is 22.45 Citigroup 10.53 CAT 15.5 DuPont 14.04
Microsoft's own ratio is 20.67
It goes on like this. Now obviously this is only one aspect of valuation: the industrial majors are likely to have a much lower price to book assets ratio than facebook has, but a 10:1 P:E ratio is far from unlikely.
Don't you think it's more likely to be used when you go through security? You don't get random people walking up to you in the airport and pulling out an x-ray machine, do you?
You can not release your statutory rights. Moreover, from the DTI's website:
The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No 2083) provide that a term which has not been individually negotiated in a consumer contract is unfair (and hence non-binding on the consumer) if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations of the parties to the detriment of the consumer.
It's not an "unspoken truth" - it is a well acknowledged and open fact that the north sea is running out of oil and gas. No-one is trying to hide this. This is why there is a major gas main into the UK from mainland Europe now. And Norsk Hydro is very forward thinking with its R&D efforts. This ends up costing the company I work for quite a lot in patent licence payments!
Stainless steel is MORE likely to be attacked by sea water than plain old carbon steel is. Chloride ions are always a show stopper when you want to use SS.
I believe the point that the gp was making was that the argument "If they worked, they could get insurance" is flawed because there are people who work who can't get insurance.
What on earth makes you think that "the public" excludes non-British people? Moreover subsection 1b is not necessary whenever firearms or explosives are involved.
Part of the design of a catalytic converter is to ensure complete combustion of the hydrocarbon is complete. Additionally they help reduce the NOx to N2 and O2. This is seriously useful as 1 kg of NO2 = 310 kg of CO2 in terms of effect. If you've got a faulty oxygen sensor then you'll get more CO, CxHy and NOx formed.
As for the CH4 to CO2 comparison, I'd need to look at my laptop at my previous job to be able to answer that as I can't remember the details overall.
NOx release from fertiliser use on farmland appears to be one of the biggest sources too - at least that's what the charts that I saw at a meeting to discuss establishment of the UK baseline emissions for Kyoto. The analysis equipment (in Europe at least) is too poorly placed and of insufficient quantities to make a valid analysis of the atmosphere to be able to ascertain where emissions come from unfortunately.
Hydrocarbons are significantly worse greenhouse gases than straight CO2 is, so catalytic converters DO reduce emissions as expressed as CO2 equivalent.
Yes, it is okay if it fails. You set the actuators up so that if they lose signal then they fail in their safe position. Then having done the design you carry out a HAZOP to make sure you've caught the problems.
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The internal mail people then collect the Transit envelopes, place them in a big rubberised bag with the destination office on it, seal it with a tamper-evident plastic tag, and then hand the bag to the TNT driver. I know as I did this as a summer job when I was a student :-)
It WAS sent by courier.
It's on a Mac. Of course it's Darwinian.
I'm an engineer, not a lawyer. I drafted a patent application (WO/2007/039764) - the key point is to make sure everything is written as clearly and unambiguously as possible. This is through my employment rather than doing it individually but the principle is the same.
The problem is that every country has its own patent system, so you need several applications, with different rules for each. For example, in the US and only in the US the applicant can't be a company but instead you have to apply for the patent and then after that it is transferred to the company (generally for one dollar). Each country charges its fees and carries out an examination. Now, if you are interested in small scale work in your own country it would be eminently doable, but in a business such as the one I'm in, all your customers are international and so you do need the international protection. As with any international legal work you can't know the individual rules of every country unless you're a specialist.
As one of the earlier posters said, examiners aren't experts and so bring up apparent prior art which to the skilled man IS different. They raised any previous patents involving spirals and catalysts even if the concept was completely different (such as being used as an Archimedes Screw to lift pellets - an idea that's thousands of years old!)
Why would it be an integer? Surely an irrational would be more appropriate?
I can sure as hell agree that there are people from some websites that I have no interest in meeting. The point is that people put their interests on their FB profiles. So rather than just sitting around typing on there, I'm learning to scuba dive with someone. And found a local Hash House Harriers club through someone on there that has no website or local advertising. I'm not trying to sound like an evangelist for it - I was dubious about its value for a long time. But as I said it is an additional avenue for meeting new people. In addition, I don't have internet access at home, so it is not like I spend my free time browsing FB.
I have moved 5000 miles across the Atlantic with work on a project. I'm on Facebook, and through the local network on there I've made some good friends - because it's not primarily a dating site it's a good way to get to know people without the desperation / pressure that dating sites can have. And without the pressure, one of my friends has become more than just a friend.
It's been good because the nature of my work means that otherwise I'd just end up hanging out with other expats, and after a month or two of steak and ribs and beer you yearn for a bit of variety.
Aside from this it has also been a good way to find people from school I drifted out of contact with over the last 10 years. Obviously there are people on there that I don't want to talk to, but then I don't need to.
It doesn't replace normal social interactions, but adds an extra possibility for meeting people you wouldn't otherwise get to know.
Yep. It's like units in chemical engineering. Are these moles kilogram or gram basis? Is this viscosity dynamic or kinematic? Also mad-driving.
The gp talked about "revenue" of $300 per user over 10 years. I interpreted this as in fact referring to earnings, given the context. Obviously price:turnover would be much lower than P:E.
As it is, I also would not invest in tech stocks such as these (except where they fall in my tracker, but as most are US rather than British I don't have as much exposure there)
Looking at your figures, with $150k EBITDA, let's allow say 50% tax, interest etc for a profit of $75k. Discounting at say 7% per annum real value would give me a quick and dirty valuation of $75k/7%, or around $1.1 million.
Basically we are saying the same thing but your correct use of revenue vs my use in the gp's terms got in the way!
Let's look through the DJIA, easily seen on finance.yahoo.com:
Alcoa's price:earnings ratio over the trailing twelve months is 14.27
AIG is 10.93
American Express is 17.89
Boeing is 22.45
Citigroup 10.53
CAT 15.5
DuPont 14.04
Microsoft's own ratio is 20.67
It goes on like this. Now obviously this is only one aspect of valuation: the industrial majors are likely to have a much lower price to book assets ratio than facebook has, but a 10:1 P:E ratio is far from unlikely.
Don't you think it's more likely to be used when you go through security? You don't get random people walking up to you in the airport and pulling out an x-ray machine, do you?
That's like saying your jeans are made of cotton and not denim.
Ironically, Wikipedia appears to be defining itself as a crackpot there.
You can not release your statutory rights. Moreover, from the DTI's website: The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No 2083) provide that a term which has not been individually negotiated in a consumer contract is unfair (and hence non-binding on the consumer) if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations of the parties to the detriment of the consumer.
So you're suggesting that if you have problems with the GIMP, you get a schoolchild to write your patches?
It's not an "unspoken truth" - it is a well acknowledged and open fact that the north sea is running out of oil and gas. No-one is trying to hide this. This is why there is a major gas main into the UK from mainland Europe now. And Norsk Hydro is very forward thinking with its R&D efforts. This ends up costing the company I work for quite a lot in patent licence payments!
Stainless steel is MORE likely to be attacked by sea water than plain old carbon steel is. Chloride ions are always a show stopper when you want to use SS.
I believe the point that the gp was making was that the argument "If they worked, they could get insurance" is flawed because there are people who work who can't get insurance.
It's the US that has the draconian embargoes. In the civilized world we can visit Cuba etc.
Gesundheit.
What on earth makes you think that "the public" excludes non-British people? Moreover subsection 1b is not necessary whenever firearms or explosives are involved.
Part of the design of a catalytic converter is to ensure complete combustion of the hydrocarbon is complete. Additionally they help reduce the NOx to N2 and O2. This is seriously useful as 1 kg of NO2 = 310 kg of CO2 in terms of effect. If you've got a faulty oxygen sensor then you'll get more CO, CxHy and NOx formed.
As for the CH4 to CO2 comparison, I'd need to look at my laptop at my previous job to be able to answer that as I can't remember the details overall.
NOx release from fertiliser use on farmland appears to be one of the biggest sources too - at least that's what the charts that I saw at a meeting to discuss establishment of the UK baseline emissions for Kyoto. The analysis equipment (in Europe at least) is too poorly placed and of insufficient quantities to make a valid analysis of the atmosphere to be able to ascertain where emissions come from unfortunately.
That doesn't change the fact that CO2 is still the most significant greenhouse gas, by far.
I used to monitor the plant that reduced Britain's emissions by 2% when it was running. This actually generated CO2 because N2O is that much worse.
Hydrocarbons are significantly worse greenhouse gases than straight CO2 is, so catalytic converters DO reduce emissions as expressed as CO2 equivalent.
Yes, it is okay if it fails. You set the actuators up so that if they lose signal then they fail in their safe position. Then having done the design you carry out a HAZOP to make sure you've caught the problems.