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"…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ever visited an Arabic country? Whatever an American might think, this is THE major problem - not terrorism - but being 'hospitalitied' to death!
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…
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…
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…
Really who would have guessed !
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…
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…
There was a similar documentary featuring the memories of the remaining people a coupe of years ago - called "Station X" ? IIRC
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…
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…
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.
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!
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…
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…
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.
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…
B.R.I.C.K. my new robot flying aircraft can fly with no power. (as long as it's only downwards)
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…
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…
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"…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ever visited an Arabic country? Whatever an American might think, this is THE major problem - not terrorism - but being 'hospitalitied' to death!
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…
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…
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…
Really who would have guessed !
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…
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…
There was a similar documentary featuring the memories of the remaining people a coupe of years ago - called "Station X" ? IIRC
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…
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…
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.
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!
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…
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…
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.
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…
B.R.I.C.K. my new robot flying aircraft can fly with no power. (as long as it's only downwards)
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…
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…