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Hmm. My company encourages patenting worthy ideas, and provides assistance for filing them along with cash awards if they are successful.
A few years ago a manager two levels up from my group told the lot of us that "software development is not an inventive process."
And with that, I no longer was concerned with the whole notion. I probably average something patentable every 2-3 years, but I keep my big yap shut.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I personally know two guys, and the daughter of a third guy, each with a handful of granted patents. None of the patents have been industrialized. They are original ideas, sure enough, but no one in commercial business have found any use for them. These patent holders are very confident that their inventions would save the world, if just the world would understand the genius of their inventions. Or for the third one, who I never met: His daughter has kept the patent papers, dated 1957 - 1963, hoping that they might be of any value, that she could start collect patent fees from them; she had never heard about patents expiring.
These were people who actually had been granted patents. In the US, the patent offices used to be liberal in granting patents, leaving to challengers to show that the invention wasn't new at all, and the patent was revoked. In Europe, getting a patent is much more difficult (and expensive). The applicant must do a lot more thorough job in proving that the invention is indeed new, and also that it has a significant "invention height". You very rarely hear about a patent being revoked in European countries. I never considered spending money on any of my own "great" ideas, but several times I have discovered that what I thought was a genial idea, had been used in the industry for many years.
Patents are like publishing your own music on the internet. I saw one survey indicating that 80% of the music on the internet had been played less than 30 times since their publication. It takes more than a good idea - whether for an invention or a tune - to give you a net feedback.
So there are two big steps to be made: First, having a set of patent lawyers confirm that your invention really is new and that it has sufficient invention height to be worth the effort of going through the mill. Second, to have someone confirm that the invention is useful for something, so useful that it is actually incorporated into a product or as a product by its own. Both steps are tall.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Well yes. You can't have it both ways. You cannot ask for protection against people copying X without specifying exactly what X is. Because you'd make it impossible for people to comply.
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It took me month to get in hold of a TPU during pandemic, nearly 1 year. I finally got one and started using it for object detection in Blue Iris. I started to use Scrypted and playing with other NVR software and then I was informed Coral TPU is already considered old news, and I could possibly run better object detection in software or using intel quick sync. Is that true? What about comparing Coral TPU to an Nvidia GPU? Can it be similar or better than a standalone GPU?
I'm considering to build another system with newer hardware to replace my ageing 10-year-old system, and I was wondering if I should go for another Coral TPU, or get a second hand GPU like Nvidia Tesla that several people recommend.
Any thoughts please?
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Myself I would consider why one needs the one that is most "efficient" right now?
If you have a process to develop that requires this which works then presumably a better one would only make it faster?
And if so then in a couple of years you would need to upgrade again. So perhaps better to get several older ones, because you save money, and then develop the process for each.
Then you can design the process now to insure that it can support differences in the future. That is because you would have already been able to see what needed to be changed.
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why would you not want a system to run efficiently? Why would I want higher power consumption, wasting cpu cycles to do something that can be done much faster and using less power?
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I just spent 30 minutes on the treadmill...
She had to come in and mention that I hadn't turned it on.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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Sounds like a complement. You must be fairly strong to move a treadmill for 30 minutes even while it's off.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My guess is that he had a steep incline, to improve the napping coefficient.
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Sad to hear. They really pushed some peoples buttons on their TV show back in the day.
R.I.P. Tom
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: They really pushed some peoples buttons on their TV show back in the day.
They kept the censors busy!
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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You know it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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it would be interesting to know what the censors nixed . presumably in today's world no such nixing would occur .
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i just happened to more less accidentally view a Smothers Brothers YouTube video . it was about religion . the joke was "What is the one thing all the world's religions have in common ?" ... "They each believe theirs is the one true Religion ."
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I subscribed to skype phone call service on my iPhone, but I forgot how I did it.
Now I want to cancel my subscription and log into my skype account and can not figure out how.
it pointed me to iTune service, but I did not have iTune installed on iPhone.
I feel it is like a puzzle to me and can not resolve it quickly...
diligent hands rule....
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"you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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it is true: all of their documents are not related with my issues.
Software needs very good documents and manuals. this is what I learned from my lesson.
diligent hands rule....
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On your iphone go to Settings -> select the top option (you) -> then click subscriptions. you can cancel them there.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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