If the Japanese market for start up companies is open, but the culture is a problem, there could be an opportunity to run a start up from Silicon Valley but targeted at Japanese market. Especially if it is an internet service start up with minimal physical presence. I understand not being immediately present in the target market means that you can become out of touch with it; also some legal issues might arise, but an opportunity is there.
I would imagine that this patent could be easily invalidated using prior art argument, the only down side is all the wasted effort and legal fees to fight the battle.
If the person came up with the solution on his own, wouldn't he patent it in full including the missing piece that the author checked in only later? Without that piece, the solution does not work.
There is one thing that I can't wrap my mind around in the whole demise of the recording industry. I would expect labels' execs to be smart and clear minded people, just by virtue of obtaining their positions and taking their companies to international sizes. I would understand if they don't accept that the game is changing for a while and than have to catch up with the market, but to deny it for a decade to the point that their bottom lines are hurting to become so desperate as to lash out on any every passing thing. That does not add up.
Is the title statement taken from their argument in section "Data on Allegations of Willfulness" where they propose that since in 70% of the cases patent holders did not notify defendants of the patent violation than it is safe to assume that the defendants did not know they were violating a patent? That seems like a faulty logic to me.
In older cities it's amazing how much great architecture goes unnoticed. New York city has buildings from turn of the century with most intricate decorations and reliefs and only recently I started noticing it (in a "they don't make 'em like they used to" way).
I guess it would be hard to make that change on a completed document where ink has already dried. I believe they used to have special rollers that would sock up fresh ink if one wanted to make a change.
That's a good point. In Poly, vast majority of CS undergrads that were looking for jobs did it through Monster and in-school job fairs. I don't remember seeing any startups or small companies being represented at these, they were filled with large banks and military contractors. I think there needs to be a better outreach to local schools by the start up community for new engineers to know what is available to them.
Interestingly, Facebook are the ones who have the technology and critical mass to make micro-payments available. But I bet they wouldn't let you pay for stuff you like in private without announcing it to the world.
Extrapolating from yourworldoftext, this game could have been more interesting if it was unlimited universe. And the same as ywot, the more people there are the more interesting things get.
Can someone explain the need for a copier to do that? Which engineer in his right mind thought that this would be a good idea without some routine clean up procedure?
So the future of Facebook is Myspace? It'll grow and decline in quality until one day some small upstart that goes back to the basics of social networking will take the crown; and the history will repeat itself. Unless of course in the future with cheaper processing power, storage space, and bandwidth it will not be as expensive to maintain a very large social network.
This situation looks similar to natural gas transportation. There needs to be separate companies who provide internet access and who own and operate transmition cables. Cable operators would not care about what kind of traffic flows through their wires as long as it's paid for. ISP's would rent bandwidth from cable providers and re-sell it to customers. Since there will be less of an entry barrier to become and ISP there would be more competition and customers in an area would not depend on the whim of one company.
Its important to consider not only how many people follow a certain person but also how much sway he has with each his followers. In Twitter's environment to measure this one can look at how often his messages get re-twitted, in Facebook its how many replies or likes he usually gets.
Does their patent actually include an implementation of their idea? Prior art notwithstanding, it strikes me that if you want to profit from your idea but don't want to be bothered with pesky things like implementation and marketing, all you need to do is to patent it. Its almost certain that sometime in the future someone else will have the same idea.
There is a market for an off-the-shelf system or maybe customizable system with the same core that cities can purchase and install without the need to do development. Maybe with different levels of strictness as far as scanning in employees is concerned (biometric scanning vs. RFID cards, etc).
Agreed. Yesterday there was a segment on NPR regarding this issue. The article does not mention this, but the newly allocated spectrum will not be just handed out to the established big players. However, it will be auctioned off which is still a problem. Unless there is a way to ensure that smaller parties have a way to get at least a part of that spectrum, the auctions will be dominated by the large carriers who can pay more.
On the other hand I keep hearing that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that instead you should eat very light diner. If key to proper fitness (and body building) according to the original article is proper nutrition, why would you skip the most important meal? Of course, breakfast should be healthy and not a load of pancakes on top of waffles on top of sausages that is considered breakfast in many diners.
I think a lot of his points follow the back-to-the-basics line. Especially that simple running and push-ups at home can be a better step towards health than joining a gym. I eventually got tired of paying hundreds in gym fees and havin go find at least an hour a day to go to one. All that only made me slack off. So made a decision to simpply a few miles each day. Right out of my office door with no excusses.
Some of those photos look photoshopped. In #10, his glasses are broken, whereas in others (14, 19) he looks very out of place. In many, his hat stand out particularly.
Part of the problems is that people who take out these loans are the least educated in personal finance and how to manage money. Unless you have a good parent or counselor guidance behind you, it is very easy to make mistakes that can cost you alot down the road. Maybe it should be a requirement as part of high school curriculum to teach students about personal finance.