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You changed the hardware
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 06:20 PM EDT

You changed the hardware by adding a device to create the radation.

And the hardware would be patentable subject matter. No one is saying otherwise.

But any software applied - no matter how different to other software - should not ever be patentable subject matter.

RAS

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I hate to disagree but...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT
You mean like this?

http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/alpharad/overview.aspx

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I hate to disagree but...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 07:29 PM EDT
There's always something that bugged me. Computers do NOT do mathematics, they
do arithmetic. There are no symbols being manipulated, only values in memory or
registers.
I do know what I'm talking about. I'm a professional developer doing driver
level development for over 20 years, currently for a top ten semiconductor
company.
I also believe that software shouldn't be patentable

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It is very hard to understand ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 12:13 PM EDT
But a computer is NOTHING but a mathematical function that maps integers
to integers. F(i) -> j. Nothing more. Everything you see computers do is
nothing more than this. There is nothing else. Really.

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Modest suggestion.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 14 2013 @ 06:38 PM EDT
Use the word Digital. There are things called Analog computers that could be
patented. ;)

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