Artificial Life Experiments Show How Complex Functions Can Evolve

NSF ^ | May 8, 2003 | Staff

[null and void]

No. This one:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6404245.WKU.&OS=PN/6404245&RS=PN/6404245

and the patent pending computer evolved circuit derived from it.

[longshadow]

propeller beanie, pocket protector placemarker

[null and void]

It's very obvious you've never had to deal with a patent examiner. I have.

[CobaltBlue]

OK, if it's pending we can't look at it unless they also tried to patent it in Europe, which does publish patent applications. If you knew the name of the inventor you could see if there was a European application.

[f.Christian]

Over 5M patents ... how many were financially (( reality )) successful --- 1 % (( anarch-loon alert )) ?

[Aric2000]

Boy, he has something negative to say about everything.

You need to get a life there FC, I am starting to feel pretty sorry for you.

[null and void]

Hmmmm. 1% of 6 million = 60,000 ideas that made the world a better place.

IP ownership is arguably the engine that created the United States' wealth and premier position in the world.

Incremental small changes add up.

Smells like success to me!

[Ichneumon]

My husband wants to know if the circuit you are talking about is this one:

No, that appears to be a different circuit.

[f.Christian]

Just getting a patent mostly proves some fool has a few thousand $ $ $ ' s to throw away to hang something on the wall that two years later they can't give away !

[MOX]

Look whos callin who a newbie!

[Aric2000]

Myself, I use the poor man's patent, works good.

You put the design and explantion in an envelope and send it to yourself. The datestamp over the stamp tells the date of the design.

Then, you leave it safe somewhere, UNOPENED, then, if someone steals the design, you can take it court and use the unopened envelope with the datestamp to prove that you came up with it first.

Works pretty well, from what I understand.

But, a patent, though it costs money, will protect you a bit better then a poor man's patent.

[Aric2000]

And you are making sense again, this is downright scary.

[f.Christian]

Science has't changed since it existed -- was created ...

people thanks to evolution // drugs ---

are getting dumber !

[null and void]

A few years back, I parlayed one into a 5 year job at $85+K/year...

[null and void]

Indeed. It's the second time I've agreed with him on this thread.

I'm worried...

[Aric2000]

Well, either we are going loooney, or he is becoming sane, I hope it's the later, and not the former. ;)

[whattajoke]

You know what's truly freaky about f.christian? The fact that he(?) posts 24 hours a day, pretty much everyday. he's supposedly in Hawaii and there are times I get in to work here in CT around 8AM, post something and there's his blather. At 2AM Hawaii time (he's supposedly in Maui, home to many cult figures). Fair enough... but there he is again at night ET as well. And afternoon. All the time. It's creepy.

Also note his need to post repetitive number posts like 222 or 444. This is a typical trait of schizophrenics (as is insomnia). It kind of bugs me out.

I'm going to Hawaii soon (not Maui, though) and there's a part of me who would love to somehow meet him. Then there's a part of me who is scared to give the actual date of my arrival for fear he may do something crazy to me.

Someone posted a link to a site of a famous computer program that returns queries in an unintentionally humorous way, a query right back. I forget the name of it (I think it was a woman's name) but I wish I could remember. For there are those of us who are convinced f.christian is simply an simple program, and not a person afterall.

he is the enigma of FR. I'm determined to figure him out.

[whattajoke]

and damn, I had 777 to further upset him again. Oh well.

[f.Christian]

Ask ph ... he has a prophecy about me !

[CobaltBlue]

He's probably oldish. My mother is 70 and her sleep cycle is all screwed up. Also, when she doesn't get enough sleep she's really batty.

And this damned demon box is too addictive.;^)