Great idea! You can bring 2 or 3 HTC flip-phones (GSM quad-band 3125) and a portable keyboard (bluetooth stowaway), and a handful of 2GB micro-SD cards. The 3125 battery will last 3 days or so, extra batteries are light, take 10.
Paul's article re-established a 'little' of the belief I once had in patents. I think the MAIN point is that 99.99999% of patents (software and not) are OBVIOUS and should not be granted.... Things like a single click, or double click..... progress bars... PLEASE! Obvious, obvious, obvious. If you analyze a problem, software or not, and have 'fair' familiarity with the subject, you'll come up with 'patientable' ideas 99% of the time.... I.e. ideas that the patent office will grant. The problem is that it would appear that there are no creative/knowledge people in the patent office... (yes, I have a patent, and yes, its mildly clever, but mostly obvious). Assemble in a room 10 knowledgable/successful people with at least 20 years per person average experience... and have THEM review the awarded patents... I bet 1 in 1000 awarded patents made it through.
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Great idea! You can bring 2 or 3 HTC flip-phones (GSM quad-band 3125) and a portable keyboard (bluetooth stowaway), and a handful of 2GB micro-SD cards. The 3125 battery will last 3 days or so, extra batteries are light, take 10.
What do you mean, 'no alternative'? Don't get one.... Wait for the other shoe to drop, either from Apple, or from Sanyo, Creative, whoever.
Paul's article re-established a 'little' of the belief I once had in patents. I think the MAIN point is that 99.99999% of patents (software and not) are OBVIOUS and should not be granted.... Things like a single click, or double click..... progress bars... PLEASE! Obvious, obvious, obvious. If you analyze a problem, software or not, and have 'fair' familiarity with the subject, you'll come up with 'patientable' ideas 99% of the time.... I.e. ideas that the patent office will grant. The problem is that it would appear that there are no creative/knowledge people in the patent office... (yes, I have a patent, and yes, its mildly clever, but mostly obvious). Assemble in a room 10 knowledgable/successful people with at least 20 years per person average experience... and have THEM review the awarded patents... I bet 1 in 1000 awarded patents made it through.