On 7/30/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/30/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/29/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jul 2007 8:30 pm, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
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Patents are intended to increase sharing of knowledge.
Indeed,
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:12:24AM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
When I look at definitions of animism, and compare that with what I have been
taught as a Hindu, the only conclusion I can reach is that Hinduism is
animism - perhaps organized animism. Does that make it religion?
Yes.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:13:31AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
And another one (one of the banned ones) was a woman with a massive
cleavage and deeply low cut blouse washing clothes at a riverbank.. and
looks like she's having an orgasm every minute that she's washing a pair
of
apparently, Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year.
www.blackle.com
On 7/30/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apparently, Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year.
www.blackle.com
Old news by now I would have thought.
Anyway; this only applies to CRTs where the screen has been maximized.
Also, it makes no allowance for usability related
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:17:57PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Anyway; this only applies to CRTs where the screen has been maximized.
yeah it shouldn't make any difference to LCDs where the lamp is on for black
pixels too.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:17:57PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Anyway; this only applies to CRTs where the screen has been maximized.
Also, it makes no allowance for usability related productivity loss
which would be quite significant.
Kill standby and wall warts -- a switchable power
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:02:49PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
This is where the controversy about patenting old and well known stuff comes
in.
there is no controversy - old and well known stuff can't be patented. it gets
patented only because overworked patent offices don't find the references
http://blog.shunya.net/shunyas_blog/2007/07/a-prologue-to-t.html
Report on historic treatment of Jews in India.
-- Charles
In addition to Rishab's fine points, I wanted to add that (at least the U.S.
patent office) has begun to recognize this. Recently, in conjunction with
N.Y. Law School, the office unveiled a program whereby folks can sign up and
contribute prior art to relevant patents that are undergoing the
On Monday 30 Jul 2007 3:10 pm, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:02:49PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
This is where the controversy about patenting old and well known stuff
comes in.
there is no controversy - old and well known stuff can't be patented. it
gets patented only
On Monday 30 Jul 2007 7:47 pm, Lawnun wrote:
Patents, unlike trade secrets, also force knowledge to the fore.
This is an interesting statement that manages to hide more about knowledge
than one might imagine.
Thousands of technologies and processes go unpatented, and the results of that
This is vaguely reminiscent of Guilty until proven innocent
I patent something that already exists and get away with it, and start
earning
money on my patent from people who don't know it exists. Eventually
someone
comes along who disputes the patent. He then has to appeal to the same
On Monday 30 Jul 2007 9:45 pm, Lawnun wrote:
To take your guilty before proven innocent criminal example a little
father, it's equivalent to throwing out a perfectly workable system that
happens to have some failings just because some (but by no means most, or
even a great many) innocent
On 7/30/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 30 Jul 2007 7:47 pm, Lawnun wrote:
The other question I have is whether patents are given for products or for
the
product plus the process by which that product is made. For example is it
possible to patent a single piece blisk for
On 7/30/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I look at definitions of animism, and compare that with what I have been
taught as a Hindu, the only conclusion I can reach is that Hinduism is
animism - perhaps organized animism. Does that make it religion?
Animism is a religion so that
Charles Haynes [31/07/07 09:58 +0530]:
FWIW it seems to me from admittedly casual observation that while
Hinduism might have animistic elements, it clearly has worship of
non-animist gods as an important, seemingly primary - even central
element.
Let us put it this way - hinduism is the sort
On 7/31/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes [31/07/07 09:58 +0530]:
FWIW it seems to me from admittedly casual observation that while
Hinduism might have animistic elements, it clearly has worship of
non-animist gods as an important, seemingly primary - even
Charles Haynes [31/07/07 10:22 +0530]:
That matches my casual observations... but if one assumes that
Hinduism is a syncretism of the various indigenous religious beliefs
then what does it mean to talk about Hinduism as a thing? Is it useful
It probably makes the same kind of logic the
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