Comment But... (Score 1) 86
...doesn't an invention have to be non-obvious to be patentable? Placing ads on a map on the web seems pretty obvious to me...
My brother is an engineer at Boeing... he claims that this is the most screwed up engineering project in terms of cost in human history. I think he has a point.
I'm an engineer at Pratt & Whitney. I'll have to say that may be close, but Star Wars takes the cake.
Yes, that "Revenge of the Sith" was pretty abysmal.
This is not the first lawsuit Akamai has won regarding its patents [1] [2].... . In accordance with the invention, however, a base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.