nobody3141

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by nobody3141 15y ago
I do like American government acts. I always picture the governor in Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles: "Patriotism is good isn't it?" "Yes Governor" "So I should sign this PATRIOT act without reading it?" "Yes Governor" "Parasites are bad aren't
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by nobody3141 15y ago
You don't trust your local bank to store your $10 bill - but you still trust the central bank not to print a billion of them tomorrow?
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by nobody3141 15y ago
I doubt that anybody 'doubled up' and now pays for both the DVD and streaming option. The reason for the DVD service to exist at all is to do with Hollywood accounting and the way the licenses are counted - the idiocy of this has been discu
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Quick economics lesson. The money on Wall St doesn't belong to the guys in red braces - it is the pensions of ordinary Americans and the savings of little old ladies. Letting Wall St crash and burn means everybody in America's pension disap
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by nobody3141 15y ago
To misquote Clinton - "It's the software stupid" You can buy an MSP430 dev board form TI for $5 with more features but the thing about the Arduino is that somebody with NO knowledge of embedded programming can go from box to flashing LED in
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Comparing it to the installed Sarnia plant at roughly the same latitude. That is 96.6 ha (239acres of cells) 80MW capacity and (estimated) 120,000 MWh over a year. So this plant should achieve around 70% of that, so 85,000 MWh /year or 235M
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Ever visited an Arabic country? Whatever an American might think, this is THE major problem - not terrorism - but being 'hospitalitied' to death!
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Filing a patent just to have a patent is a few $100 - even less if you only file provisionally and hope the new employer doesn't understand the difference! But if you want a patent to be of value, then it needs professional drafting and fil
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Remember. A lot of his talks are likely to be to universities/user groups who have never organised a talk before - so 'remember a microphone' is useful! And a lot of talks maybe in 'emerging nations' who assume that since he is American he
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by nobody3141 15y ago
I have a list of patents I have 'invented' and were filed by previous employers and this has got me jobs - but on the basis that I 'understand about patents', not because they specifically wanted them (since I don't own them) The problem wi
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Really who would have guessed !
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by nobody3141 15y ago
The largest percentage of cell phone users in the world will never have used a landline and never will. It's a big mistake thinking that every new emerging economy has to go through the same industrialization steps in the same way as the la
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by nobody3141 15y ago
That software patents don't work can be shown from the simple fact that no software "inventor" tries to sell his patented idea to a big company. If I invent intermittent windscreen wipers for cars then it's worthless to me unless I also int
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by nobody3141 15y ago
There was a similar documentary featuring the memories of the remaining people a coupe of years ago - called "Station X" ? IIRC
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by nobody3141 15y ago
It has do with paranoia and a government and civil services that have managed very nicely for 200years by automatically keeping all successes and failures secret. GCHQ invented public key encryption in the 70s years before RSA. But instead
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by nobody3141 15y ago
The parts are pretty standard and the government can potentially buy them by million plus they can easily line up cheap manufacturing. The OLPC was a unique and novel design with no real momentum behind it. The main barrier to the success
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by nobody3141 15y ago
He didn't say it did - but it is an issue with converting and indexing old documents. Google's ngrams for instance regularly transcribes them as 'f' so you have to search for both possibilities.
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Pity the Sony Bono copyright law didn't apply or Franklin's decedents would still have the copyright on electricity! And Trinity College would be collecting a royalty everytime an apple fell off a tree!
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by nobody3141 15y ago
It's $60 retail, there are $75 retail Chinese Android 2.3 tablets - they didn't change the world, why would this one? Is the government going to create online courses in English and Hindi? Is it going to have English lessons so you can acce
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Given that it's specs aren't much more than $100 chinese Android 2.3 tablets I doubt they are losing anything. Especially since they don't have a retailer taking 30% Their policy for the other Kindles was to recover the R&D initially an
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Hey the new 2012 Oldsmobiles are in! And not only are they new and improved in ways you can't actually detect - but they are guaranteed compatible with your current gas.
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Crazy moves like "heavy spending on warehouses, data centers and digital-content offerings" An online store buying stock and building infrastructure !!!!! Crazy , they should be borrowing money and paying themselves bonuses before going bus
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by nobody3141 15y ago
B.R.I.C.K. my new robot flying aircraft can fly with no power. (as long as it's only downwards)
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by nobody3141 15y ago
So 10years of R+D from the foremost manufacturer of PC operating systems has produced ...... Hardware accelerated transparency effects on the desktop (if you're lucky and not on an Intel chipset) Just think what the next 10years might bring
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by nobody3141 15y ago
Lego had a patent on the design of the bricks 50 years ago - but failed to get a trademark on the shape of the bricks. Apple got a design patent on the general shape of the iPad. Design patents are a convenient way to get around the fact th
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by nobody3141 15y ago
There is a difference between trademark and patent. But Apple has a patent on making something that replaces a pad of paper look like a pad of paper - shouldn't a similar arguement apply?
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by nobody3141 15y ago
" Judges agreed with experts who said a brick was a technical shape which could not be trademarked." Odd that the unique pattern of interlocking holes and columns on a Lego brick is obvious and technical. While a tablet computer being shape
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by nobody3141 15y ago
It's not health it's government. The ministry of defence stock control project is similarly behind schedule and overbudget - and last time they tested it they had 8Bn worth of kit the army couldn't find. I mean how difficult is it to make a
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by nobody3141 15y ago
If you are MIT/Stanford/UCB and you are worried that you have to teach an industrially useful language because the students need it to get jobs - then you should close down and send them to Pheonix or ITT-Tech My understanding was that MIT
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by nobody3141 15y ago
10 Healthcare is expensive 20 Technology is good 30 So we use technology to make health care cheap 40 We announce massive NHS-IT project 50 We spend $20Bn 60 We discover project totally useless and abandon it 70 goto 10

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