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The author explains that the backs of phones are the primary distinguishing factor with inconsequential differences in screen resolution and refresh rates.
And then...favorably points out how the backs of headphones are the primary distinguishing factor with inconsequential differences in driver response.
Am I missing something?
Which leaves me the same number of questions.
So, what is Platform as a Service?
> echo "Downloading piku-bootstrap here."
> curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/piku/piku-bootstrap/master... > piku-bootstrap
> chmod 755 piku-bootstrap
> echo "Now you can install Piku on `hostname` like this:"
> echo "./piku-bootstrap install"
Did you look at the script?
Amazing they could accomplish such a feat.
To analogize to the legal field, which they mention in the article, if a case I cite is good law on one point of law, but no longer good law on another I may cite it as _Plaintiff v. Defendant_, 123 F.3d 456 (1998) (reversed on other grounds, _Defendant v. Plaintiff_ 78 S.Ct. 910 (2000))
Just because one finding in a paper wasn't replicated doesn't mean that the paper can't or shouldn't be cited for other findings.
Sincerely,
Your local IP attorney.
Bounce could, theoretically, cause an input to be read as a non-input if it just bounced at exactly the wrong time, but it won't cause multiple inputs, as it's only polled every 1/60th of a second.
Please don't give it much weight.
Also, they indicate that a water fast is when you have no water. It's when you have only water. Which also isn't a good indication of what happens if you just cut added dietary sugars.
A point she made in the video (and at least partially confirmed by a quick patent search by me) is that there really isn't one of these in the prior art.
> There's also no reason to patent that many things for the same thing. You only need to be sufficiently vague to how it folds.
As far as patents are concerned, those are the same. Getting a patent broad enough to cover all her embodiments of the invention is the same as getting a patent that covers all the prototypes. In the US you get up to three "free" independent claims per patent application, that can cover different approaches that are non-overlapping. But they can't be addressed to different inventions. In other words, you can get a single patent on three reasonable variations of a folding coat hanger and slight variations thereof. You cannot get a single patent that covers a folding coat hanger, and precision timing device, and a popcorn maker.
Source: IAAPL
There's been some progress in CAR-NK therapies, which would be "off the shelf" in that they don't need to be engineered from your own cells. Also some very preliminary work with allogeneic CAR-T therapies that wouldn't have to be made special for each person.
The two main points of the show are to feature and raise the profile of younger magicians, and to get modern video records of their tricks. The "fool us" thing, while genuine is pretty ancillary the point of the show.
>It also gave me a glimpse on how secretive the magician community is. Since people earn a living selling required gimmicks or instructions on how to perform specific tricks, it is completely unacceptable to discuss how things are done. For the really puzzling ones on the show, if you go online to try to find the answers, you'll often find others asking the same thing, and the accompanying wall of silence. Even more so on forums dedicated specifically to magicians. You're likely to find a large discussion, usually with links to the official store for the trick, and zero answers. To do that would be breaking the magician's code, and apparently, you don't break the code.
Very, very, very, few people make a living selling tricks, and most of those are people who design and manufacture large stage illusions for the best magicians. A small handful of performing magicians ALSO sell tricks at retail magic shops. A few more than that write and publish books through magic publishing.
Some folks take the code of silence VERY seriously, but notably Penn and Teller do not. They do a cups and balls with transparent cups. They do Lift Off Of Love, which shows in detail how to do a pretty involved stage illusion. They LOVE telling people how things are done. They share similarity with Houdini in wanting to expose people who pretend that they actually have supernatural powers, and some of their tricks are aimed at showing that it's really just a high skill profession.
> A movie studio should not be a grocery store.
> A search engine paying for 100% placement should not also be a music platform, movie platform, thermostat vendor, cloud vendor, ...
Then what's the lawful distance between goods and services that company should be able to offer?
I get the position that big is bad, and I don't entirely disagree with that, but selling watches offers no unfair benefit to apple in the movie studio business, and vice versa. It's not like they're tying one good to another, or leveraging market power in one to gain market power in the other.
So if we want to say that you can't run a company that makes consumer electronic devices and a movie studio (see also, Sony, Amazon), then what's the limit?
Should a company that makes motorcycles be allowed to sell, say, fine stringed instruments (Yamaha)?
What about a company that makes industrial adhesives? Should they be allowed to also sell office supplies (3M)?