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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 06:18 AM EDT |
Just had an idea ...
Just what, exactly, is the difference between a Wacom touchpad where I can use a
stylus to draw a line, and this swype thingy everyone's talking about where I
swipe my finger over a phone screen?
Or is it just that both devices record the movement of the pointer across the
sensitive surface, convert it to a series of co-ordinates (an abstract concept
if ever I saw one), and pass it to an Arithmetic Logic Unit to process, to
convert it into a line (another abstract concept) or a word (yet another
abstract concept).
So WHAT, here, is new about this Swype thingy over the Wacom touchpad that my
colleague was programming twentyfive years ago in the *early* eighties other
than MEANING we ascribe to the signals that come out of the sensor?
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT |
"You can't patent the act of putting a
chemical into rubber. "
What? Of course you can:
Patent number: 6656999
1. A method of preparing a butadiene rubber latex having a large particle size,
showing good stability and reducing coagulum during polymerization, which
comprises:
(a) pretreating a seed butadiene rubber latex by mixing the seed butadiene
rubber latex with deionized water and a small amount of an emulsifier and
stirring;
(b) preparing an agglomerating latex with a pH value of about 5.08.0 by
mixing a copolymer latex containing unsaturated carboxylic acid having from
about 10 to about 50% by weight of solid content with deionized water and a pH
controlling agent; and
(c) adding the pretreated seed butadiene rubber latex of step (a) to the
agglomerating latex of step (b).
http://www.google.com/patents/US6656999?dq=synthetic+rubber+method+of+preparatio
n&ei=X93YT8y0NcmU2AXIi7S5Dw[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 02:46 PM EDT |
"You can't patent actions."
Of course you can. That's what a process is, a set of actions. I dare say
millions of processes have been patented. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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