I catch it once in a while heading back from a late night at the MET: since the museum stays open late Fri and Saturday I can walk back down and hit the store around ten when the tourist frenzy has lessened. Makes a nice break before heading on.
He/I am not in NY. I'm in NC. I have been only around NYC, never into the heart of the city. I'd love to visit around the holidays but just not sure I can handle the crowds, that's what I meant earlier :-)
Side note, spent the last winter holidays in DC. Terrific city, and practically abandoned during the week of xmas.
Walk one block over from Fifth Ave. and the crowds disappear. Or approach Rockefeller Center and the ice rink from a side street.
That would include me, and I don't know if that's any consolation.
Tourist crowds are usually slow moving, and confined to certain areas, it's very much unlike the to and fro work crowds that are everywhere, and like stampeding herds lol.
Considering a trip up during winter school break, but I'm already asking myself if that's wise?
NYC puts on quite the show for the holidays and there's always tactics to duck the crowds. The usual "early and late" that applies to national park icons etc. and then there's the slightly off the beaten path stuff. A slight example is the Rockeffeller Christmas tree: approached from Fifth Ave. is a nightmare of solid people that even twigs my space buttons (and I'm a native and grew up in beach bars my grandparents owned where solid people crowds were the norm), head down either street that parallels the central approach (West 50th orW 49th) and you get great views and no packed-solid humanity. And last winter there was a hot chocolate stand on the northern side!
That slow moving part is what get's to me: I wandered into the Fifth Ave crowd approaching Rockefeller Center by accident one time and got REALLY uncomfortable being in packed shoulder to shoulder and front to back moving at a crawl blocked off by police barriers on the curbside and the buildings on the inside.... broke one block east and: nothing.
The Congress shall have power to...promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries....
Design patents are limited to 14 years
The US Code Title 35 § 173 has been recently amended and is now 15 years.
"Patents for designs shall be granted for the term of fourteen years from the date of grant."
And according to the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012: "(7) in section 173, by striking fourteen years and inserting 15 years;"
The Patent Law Treaties Act was introduced by Senator Leahy at the very onset of the first Samsung vs Apple trial in August of 2012 and signed into law by Obama in December of the same year -- to probably send a message to foreign companies not to mess around with their home team Apple.
<h4 style="color:rgb(34,34,34);padding-bottom:0px;">Looks like the Santambrogiomilano group might have to tear down their simple glass cubed house that went on display late 2009</h4>
NYC puts on quite the show for the holidays and there's always tactics to duck the crowds. The usual "early and late" that applies to national park icons etc. and then there's the slightly off the beaten path stuff. A slight example is the Rockeffeller Christmas tree: approached from Fifth Ave. is a nightmare of solid people that even twigs my space buttons (and I'm a native and grew up in beach bars my grandparents owned where solid people crowds were the norm), head down either street that parallels the central approach (West 50th orW 49th) and you get great views and no packed-solid humanity. And last winter there was a hot chocolate stand on the northern side!
Oh and check out both Bryant Park (behind the main branch of the New York Public Library) for it's iceskating and little stores (plus they run the fountain all winter and it's gorgeous when it freezes over and turns into this giant ice sculpture and Central Park for it's winter landscape!
I don't like the idea of architecture designs being patented, since our house is of square design and utilizes copious amounts of glass, do I have to worry about a knock at the door from Apple lawyers.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is perhaps the greatest architectural firm in this country over the past several decades. Funny that they also designed Bill Gates home, on a Mac. An amazing project worthy of the praise it receives.
I don't like the idea of architecture designs being patented, since our house is of square design and utilizes copious amounts of glass, do I have to worry about a knock at the door from Apple lawyers.
I don't like the idea of architecture designs being patented, since our house is of square design and utilizes copious amounts of glass, do I have to worry about a knock at the door from Apple lawyers.
If they did they couldn't have build your house in Buenos Aires as well:
Nope, I wouldn't post my house in a public forum. I just used one that came the closest to ours. Square architecture is big right now in Switzerland, you can't go a block without seeing one. I just don't see patenting architecture a good idea.
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Same here. I always go to the SoHo store.
I catch it once in a while heading back from a late night at the MET: since the museum stays open late Fri and Saturday I can walk back down and hit the store around ten when the tourist frenzy has lessened. Makes a nice break before heading on.
He/I am not in NY. I'm in NC. I have been only around NYC, never into the heart of the city. I'd love to visit around the holidays but just not sure I can handle the crowds, that's what I meant earlier :-)
Side note, spent the last winter holidays in DC. Terrific city, and practically abandoned during the week of xmas.
Walk one block over from Fifth Ave. and the crowds disappear. Or approach Rockefeller Center and the ice rink from a side street.
In other news:
"Samsung to build glass cube store next to Apple's"
Probably for the best.
Tourist crowds are usually slow moving, and confined to certain areas, it's very much unlike the to and fro work crowds that are everywhere, and like stampeding herds lol.
Considering a trip up during winter school break, but I'm already asking myself if that's wise?
NYC puts on quite the show for the holidays and there's always tactics to duck the crowds. The usual "early and late" that applies to national park icons etc. and then there's the slightly off the beaten path stuff. A slight example is the Rockeffeller Christmas tree: approached from Fifth Ave. is a nightmare of solid people that even twigs my space buttons (and I'm a native and grew up in beach bars my grandparents owned where solid people crowds were the norm), head down either street that parallels the central approach (West 50th orW 49th) and you get great views and no packed-solid humanity. And last winter there was a hot chocolate stand on the northern side!
That slow moving part is what get's to me: I wandered into the Fifth Ave crowd approaching Rockefeller Center by accident one time and got REALLY uncomfortable being in packed shoulder to shoulder and front to back moving at a crawl blocked off by police barriers on the curbside and the buildings on the inside.... broke one block east and: nothing.
Design patents are limited to 14 years
The US Code Title 35 § 173 has been recently amended and is now 15 years.
"Patents for designs shall be granted for the term of fourteen years from the date of grant."
And according to the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012: "(7) in section 173, by striking fourteen years and inserting 15 years;"
The Patent Law Treaties Act was introduced by Senator Leahy at the very onset of the first Samsung vs Apple trial in August of 2012 and signed into law by Obama in December of the same year -- to probably send a message to foreign companies not to mess around with their home team Apple.
It does appear Apple forgot to cite them as prior art when they filed for their patent three years later. They don't list Santambrogiomlano.
NYC puts on quite the show for the holidays and there's always tactics to duck the crowds. The usual "early and late" that applies to national park icons etc. and then there's the slightly off the beaten path stuff. A slight example is the Rockeffeller Christmas tree: approached from Fifth Ave. is a nightmare of solid people that even twigs my space buttons (and I'm a native and grew up in beach bars my grandparents owned where solid people crowds were the norm), head down either street that parallels the central approach (West 50th orW 49th) and you get great views and no packed-solid humanity. And last winter there was a hot chocolate stand on the northern side!
I'll keep this in mind, thanks!
I'll keep this in mind, thanks!
I hope you enjoy it!
Oh and check out both Bryant Park (behind the main branch of the New York Public Library) for it's iceskating and little stores (plus they run the fountain all winter and it's gorgeous when it freezes over and turns into this giant ice sculpture and Central Park for it's winter landscape!
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bryant park frozen fountain
It does appear Apple forgot to cite them as prior art when they filed for their patent three years later. They don't list Santambrogiomlano.
You know what they say about people who live in glass houses...
You know what they say about people who live in glass houses...
You can see them having sex.
I don't like the idea of architecture designs being patented, since our house is of square design and utilizes copious amounts of glass, do I have to worry about a knock at the door from Apple lawyers.
This is your house? Damn good looking.
If they did they couldn't have build your house in Buenos Aires as well:
http://directorioarco.blogspot.com/2009/04/andres-remy-arquitectosthe-black.html