Does China have a free and liquid labor market? I know next to nothing about China's labor economics and politics, but I would strongly suspect that the labor market is quite illiquid (if that word has any meaning in this context). That is, do factories get to compete for workers with compensation and working condition market based incentives? Or does the Party inhibit the competition among factories so that it really is a Foxconn or nothing type proposition?

That is what this decision is! The title of the suit is:

SIMON GLIK,
Plaintiff, Appellee,
v.
JOHN CUNNIFFE, in his individual capacity; PETER J. SAVALIS, in
his individual capacity; JEROME HALL-BREWSTER, in his individual
capacity; CITY OF BOSTON,

Glik is filing a law suit against the officers individually and the city of Boston alleging a violation of his civil rights. The defendants claimed that the officers have qualified immunity and are not subject to a law suit. The appellate court has said here that "No, you did violate the rights and have no qualified immunity." Now Glik should be able to proceed with the law suit and get damages. My guess would be that after this ruling there will be a settlement, as it doesn't look like the defendants can win the civil suit without immunity and with the evidence so clearly spelled out by the appellate court.

Note the 'D' in the front. That makes this a design patent, not a utility patent. Thus it is restricted to only the ornamental (not functional) aspects of the device. By its very nature, it cannot have substance.

The video says that the servo control is handled on board the module. So, you would need a trajectory planner and interpolator, but not amplifiers or drives. There is no comment on how to set up the tuning (for good control, robots require non-linear control laws). I *think* the newest ABB robot controllers, with some undocumented options, can directly feed interpolation points out over CAN bus (accepted by these modules), so it might be possible.

Because G is no longer the name that National Instruments calls it?

My CS101 class (many moons ago) was taught in Scheme. I thought it was fantastic. Since I didn't come from a high achieving high school, I had no formal software training beyond what I hacked on my home C64 w/ Comal. I was nervous that I was going to have to compete with a bunch of C/C++/Pascal trained gurus. Scheme was the great leveler. Nobody had a clue with the language, and the professor could focus on CS, and the programmers had no advantage in the class (i.e. couldn't coast).

Bring back CS101 as Lisp/Scheme/Logo (not the turtle part, the actual language). Make their brains hurt.

McDonald's tested this a while ago. It was not well received by the customers.

So, I did a little looking around on the web and my question is where do I buy an HDFury? As far as I can tell it is no more. Nobody seems to have any inventory.

Missing two roots in "Take the cube root..."
>> roots([1, 0, 0, 1])

ans =

    -1.0000
      0.5000 + 0.8660i
      0.5000 - 0.8660i

The first equation has two solutions. But the equation x^3+1=0 has three solutions. You chose the one solution that didn't apply. The other two work just fine.

>> roots([1,-1,1])

ans =

      0.5000 + 0.8660i
      0.5000 - 0.8660i

I like the problem though!

"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." - Nikolai Tesla

Twenty six letters, sure. But twenty six glyphs? Far from it. Along with all of the punctuation (the obvious addition) there are ligatures, italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc. Authors use all of these tools to express complex ideas clearly when twenty six letters isn't enough.

I have 9 patents issued and a handful more pending. As other posters have said, it's just part of some of our jobs. They have varied wildly in pendancy time. The fastest was 18 months, with no office actions (shocked the heck out of myself and the other inventor). The slowest (so far) was over 6 years. However, since Obama took office, I have had several that were mired in "docketed for examination" limbo suddenly get a flurry of activity and issue (three patents filed years apart issued within 50,000 of each other). Many of my colleagues are having the same experience. So I do suspect that things are changing at the USPTO. The dashboard and article seem to bear that out, at least in effort.

I doubt the Supreme Court will even take this one up. This one is now settled.

Further, these rankings are often based on the OECD data, which is seriously flawed as a ranking mechanism. From Phoenix Center Policy Paper Number 29: The Broadband Performance Index: A Policy-Relevant Method of Comparing Broadband Adoption Among Countries (emphasis mine)