lkjuhygthyujk

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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
Yes, but I'm assuming the UK didn't draft a law in the mid 90s to prevent Islamic attacks on the US. The fact that their plans would be written in a foreign language (never mind a foreign alphabet) would have been more than adequate to keep
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
You don't need mailing lists - it works for bricks and mortar stores. I bought a groupon 1/2 price coupon for a fancy clothes store (Gap). I wouldn't normally go in there but for $10 they got me to go in and buy $50 worth of shirts. I will
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
So one business model = Apple Another = Unisys Looks like the beginning of the end....
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
Isn't this like taking out a giant ad saying win7-mobile is so technically poor - we have decided the only way to compete with Apple and Android is in court with software patents?
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
No offence to the above - but it's the same reason you don't find knowledgeable people working in the Software section of the bookstore. Go into the english-lit / history section of a good bookstore in a university town and the odds are the
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
+-5 years in 2000years of German history ;-) Sorry, I had thought the hyperinflation + general chaos led directly to the rather unpleasant party seizing power in 1933 and so assumed the bad times were immediately before then (ie 1930-1933).
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
I'm a CS not a historian I thought the Weimar republic was 1930s In 2000 years of history that's only an error of 1%
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
No - IIRC it's 5years for 'normal' crimes or 7 years for terrorist cases. The whole law is ridiculous, it also includes unlimited spying by the security services with the bizarre Kafkesque part that you have to cooperate with the spys and i
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
I was a grad student in CS at Cambridge when this law was introduced. A nice man from the police came to lecture us about it. We asked about proving that say the results from a Monte Carlo simulation, or even just a blank disc weren't enc
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
People did that as a protest when the law was introduced - they emailed random numbers to the then home secretary (the minister in charge of the police in the UK)
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
Thats what we do - your problem is to get a certain signal level in as small as space on the PCB as possible. We use our 20years each of studying physics, software we spent a lot of time and money writing, and a lot of expensive test gear -
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
I think there was a tiny little bit of hyperinflation in Germany in the 20-30s. IIRC the exchange rate was 1,000,000,000,000 Mark = 1 Reichsmark
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
Trouble is that there is a knee in the learning curve. Everybody works with electrical equipement - it would be helpful if some of the 'non-technical' employees here understood about checking that it was plugged in, and not spilling drinks
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
If I only I could get a patent on irony - unfortunately it would mean getting Americans to understand it.
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
>you intend to commercialize it The problem then is that cell phone makers would have a monopoly, since no small company could come up with a better antennae, or better screen etc without also having all the other parts of a cell phone.
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
No - it was a requirement a century ago. You do have to describe a workable implementation, you can't just patent 'a time machine' - but you don't have to show that it is practical today. So you can for example assume future developments in
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
No it represents what a market maker thought the value of the patent was multiplied by the chance of collecting on it. What would the idea of the iPod have been worth in the 90s? The then value of Apple's consumer electronics sales (ie 0) o
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
Simple - Patent trolls file suits against cool hip trendy geek friendly companies like Apple and Google. IP companies protect their investment when it's stolen by big evil companies like Microsoft or Sony.
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
I believe Germany did in the late 1930s but for other reasons the Reichmark didn't quite end up as the world currency they wee hoping for. You can decide to peg your currency against a more stable one eg west Africa and the French Franc - b
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
It was when I was at school 20years ago. And the ability to write 10 print "I am great" 20 goto 10 has led directly to the wide understanding of technology and the rational approach to science and computers we see today among both the gener
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by lkjuhygthyujk 16y ago
I don't think you understand the difference between a patent troll and an IP company. The company I work for designs antennae for cell phones, wifi, GPS receivers etc. We barely have a website, just a couple of PhDs and a lawyer. We rely on