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- BrutePhysics, on 05/21/2009, -1/+45This is why I am against the patent of ideas. According to the article Microsoft is trying to patent holographic conferencing by making a (slightly more advanced) three year old's sketch of what we *believe* holographic interfaces could *eventually* look like. No real technology at all. Picking out technology you read about in a sci-fi book or saw in a movie should not be patentable. That's like me saying "I saw Star Wars and from here on patent the very idea of space ships that shoot laser beams... now someone must pay me to use my idea".
- nahsrocketeer75, on 05/20/2009, -0/+36What I want is technology that can at my whim lift me *out* of meeting yet make it seem as though I'm still there.
- thegator25, on 05/21/2009, -0/+27Think of the porn implications
- Kakumeikeahi, on 05/21/2009, -1/+28Why not just try to patent technology?
- Vodd9, on 05/21/2009, -0/+18Yeah, because they're totally the first to ever think about the idea.
/s - 4NDr01D, on 05/21/2009, -0/+16this is exactly why copyright law is screwed up
they need to have a real version of the technology first!!! - inactive, on 05/20/2009, -12/+28YAY!!! Holographic BSOD!!!
- 1plant1world, on 05/21/2009, -0/+16Doesn't Lucas already own this patent ;-)
- linagee, on 05/21/2009, -1/+16I'll patent the process of going to the patent office and submitting paperwork to be approved for a patent.
- SmokenJoe, on 05/21/2009, -1/+14So they dont really have any new technology or ideas they just want to troll or block people from leapfrogging them.
- kavaliro, on 05/21/2009, -0/+12If ever there were two patent applications that must be rejected due to Prior Art and preexisting patents, then these are those patent applications.
- wikinerd, on 05/21/2009, -0/+9Does that mean they have a working concept?
- cashmonkey, on 05/21/2009, -0/+9If the porn industry likes it you know it will succeed!
- cubicledrone, on 05/21/2009, -4/+13Oh good. What business truly needs is more meetings. More Powerpoint too. We haven't built a ***** thing in this country worth a wet pile of ***** in almost 50 years. Let's keep that up and see how it works out.
- Scrappy1850, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8i think thats called a bj
- tgc1, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8BHOD = Blue Hologram of Death.
- seltaeb4, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7As seen in "THX 1138."
- Apocrypha, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7Good thing I got that patent for Holo-Emitters last year.
- techobo, on 05/21/2009, -1/+8Help me Steve Balmer, you're my only hope!
- 4NDr01D, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7if he's your only hope
I truly pity you - dbossnirvana, on 05/21/2009, -0/+7It'll be bundled with the Windows 7 Holodeck pack, magic wand pending.
- tao52nyc, on 05/21/2009, -0/+6I've got a gesture for them...
- Turkman182, on 05/20/2009, -1/+7Now that would be awesome.
- notman, on 05/21/2009, -0/+6One step away from holographic netmeetings with strippers :)
- BrutePhysics, on 05/21/2009, -0/+6Exactly. I didn't mean to make it against Microsoft in particular more about the absurdity of patenting ideas without at least a blueprint of technology. The entire system is messed up.
- Yazilliclick, on 05/21/2009, -3/+9Yeah, the patent system is a mess. You really can't blame Microsoft though because the system basically forces companies to do this now because if they don't some other company that hasn't really invented it is going to try and eventually one of them is going to get the patent which will cost Microsoft or whichever company finally comes up with a working solution a lot of money and headaches.
- nem0, on 05/21/2009, -2/+7I suspect Microsoft's will take the cool idea of holographic communication and turn it into something about as exiting as as their illustration for "Fig. 5."
- V3n0M, on 05/21/2009, -1/+6Didn't Cisco already do this? I distinctly remember a holographic Will.I.Am on CNN...
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5That's what drugs are for.
- bonarez, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5They will never get this patent cause of 'prior act' > I've seen this so called 'idea' thousands of times in science fiction movies..
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -5/+10When was the last time you saw a BSOD not caused by NVdisp4.drv or defective hardware?
- psibladeZX, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5I agree... meetings are a huge waste of time... it's all paper pushing in my office (fortune 500, AND a dow component)
- elperegrino, on 05/21/2009, -0/+5obi wan had to be dead to do this...
- pwnshaman, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4developer developers developers developers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- pwnshaman, on 05/21/2009, -3/+7just like apple does
- LucifersDad, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4Lets understand:
Microsoft will patent an Holographic meeting without:
1) Creating a holographic machine themselves.
2) Researching into how to create a holographic machine.
I will therefore patent a button that is pressed when someone uses a time machine.
I will not myself invent a time ,machine,
I will not even bother read up about time travel.
I will just patent something that i will put little effort into and sue the crap out of people for actually eventing it, just like the people who sued people for using hyper links when they themselves did ***** all in creating the internet.
The patent system is *****. - chadsmith729, on 05/21/2009, -2/+6Oh, great yet another reason to avoid meetings with "management".
- BoneheadFarker, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4You can't. They will be able to hold them anywhere. You're at home, they're at the office. You're in Houston, their in San Diago. You're at the crappy local beach, their on a management retreat in Cancun drinking mojitos from a strippers *****. It won't matter anymore. They can now drag you into a meeting from anywhere...
- doctechnical, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4That was pretty much what I was thinking while reading the article. I was under the impression that in order to get a patent you had to have a working model of the thing you're trying to patent. If this isn't the case I'm going to patent faster-than-light travel. Why not?
- BaphClass, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4I'm patenting the cure for cancer. God-damn, I'm gonna be rich!
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4yeah, but think how many times you will be able to say "paradigm shift" , "tipping point" and "outside the box"
- gekco, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4This kind of patent law is total BS! So you think someone 'might' develop a new technology within the next 25 years and then 'patent' it. Then they have to pay you royalties. Please! Develop the technology first and prove it works. Then only should you be able to patent it.
- 4321234, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4Balmer's dead too.....inside.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -5/+9just like apple then.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -4/+7Yay!!! Trolls in 3-D!
- Myztry, on 05/21/2009, -1/+4Not quite true. Microsoft is primarily an IP trader not too far removed from patent trolls.
Of it's $9ish billion per annum which it files under 'research', how much do you think is paying for other people ideas (or other means of leverage), and how much do you think is really research to form their own ideas???
Microsoft hasn't got a ***** clue what research is, or their stated research expenditure would be a fraction of what it is! - Nudar, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3I've patented the warp drive.
- zantos420, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2try mushrooms
- maildave, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2Admiral Ozzel came out of lightspeed too close to the system. He felt surprise would be better...
- doctechnical, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2Have eyeballs tattooed to your eyelids, and sleep through your meetings.
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