Posts by ShinySteelRobot

Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA  No idea what your last post has to with this article... But based on the post I responded to, Tesla should replace Edison.   Tesla was an amazing eccentric genius who...

When I was a teen my family temporarily moved to Canada, and I went to Canadian high school. In Canadian History class in HS they taught us that Alexander Graham Bell was a famous Canadian inventor and that the telephone was a Canadian...

Quote: Originally Posted by ash471  First of all, the NTP patents are not as broad as you suggest.  You are accusing NTP of claiming only the function.  That isn't true.  see wikipedia entry on NTP....

This is the software equivalent of an overly-broad patent on "a machine for moving people from one place to another" a long time ago. And then, after the widespread invention/adoption of trains, stagecoaches, cars, airplanes, etc,...

How much more evidence do we need that the US patent system is fundamentally broken? People have been using wireless mail since the days of carrier pigeons. In the past years it was discovered that there were descriptions of wireless...

Quote: "We have a very talented pool of resources in Silicon Valley and across (the) U.S. to develop new process technologies and do cost effective manufacturing, while protecting critical intellectual property," Jain...

Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram  Uh uh. It would appear you missed the point of my post. If you really wanted to be math-y about "a completely different line of thought or action" the word you would be...

Quote: Originally Posted by ShinySteelRobot  On a tangent, this reminds me of how Bill Gates wrote that being able to factor large prime numbers would be a huge advance in mathematics in his book "The...

Quote: Originally Posted by ShinySteelRobot  On a tangent, this reminds me of how Bill Gates wrote that being able to factor large prime numbers would be a huge advance in mathematics in his book "The...

Quote: Originally Posted by iVlad  Hmmm, RIM, NOKIA, Microsoft all laughed at Apple back in 2007. Wow, tables have turned. 360! That's karma for you, betch!   Tables have turned 360? I...