Real Life Hank Rangar?
this is longish, just take a listen to the first 5 minutes. If you have not yet read "Pendulum of Justice," this is exactly the sort of high tech project Hank Rangar would have taken on in his lab, Made-By-Man. Please note the owner of Clear View is heavily relying on his patents to protect him against the "big boys." Looks pretty cool
how crucial patents are for a small business. he
needs a ragnar danneskjold to protect his work
against unfair competition. -- j
As to patents, when I was in the publishing biz, I found the copyright dep't (which is part of the patent office) to be indifferent to the point of disregard. Hopefully, he'll get his patents through in a timely manner. However, he might find it difficult once he goes into production to get his patents honored in Asian markets. To try to enforce them will cost a pot full of money and no certainty even if he wins.
BTW the new laws still offer public protection if the idea was sold. In other words, if you sell it you (and everyone) are protected from monopoly from another first to file. Therefore, first to invent plays a game of chicken, but it is their game to play.
Do you really think it was better before? Proof of first invention is very messy. Proof of filing or selling is relatively straightforward (we'll see how the lawyers screw this up), and the reason for the monopoly is only supported via a sale.
I'm sure other corporate employees feel under-compensated, and some probably are, but if they are, just quit and/or pursue the patent on ones own. Some of my buddies have done this, and it worked fine for them.
Your points are interesting about corporate employee/inventors.
I'm not sure I understand your concern:
Employee invention vs corporate assignment
America Invents 2013 changes (first to file)
Both?
across this range, a pair of co-phased compression
crystals should be able to produce mono....now,
stereo is something else! 2 speakers required. -- j
Electrostatic speakers have been available for a long time, and have the benefit of very low mass drivers, which makes for excellent fidelity. There remains a following for them.
These are different, using the piezoelectrics as the force into the driver, which is the plate of glass. The frequency response should be excellent. Like other electrostatics, the limitation of these is probably the low frequency range, where moving significant volume of air is required to produce high sound pressure levels. That is why bass speakers are large. This limitation doesn't come from the piezeoelectrics frequency bandwidth, but stroke.
Very cool stuff. This work combining signal processing with mechanics (in this case audio) is emerging as the next set of breakthroughs. Previously the signal processing improved by computer technology and the mechanics did only in design not application. By understanding both at one time, these guys and others are doing new, very interesting things. Beam forming in higher end radar and sonar is similar. This is where the emerging "sound bars" come from. Just love this stuff. Excellent, and love the patent note!
If you like speakers and such, check out spark gap / plasma speakers. They have zero mass drivers, which produce sound in air directly via a shock wave:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJpn2PzhvP4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRNM6oopY_k
excelphysics.com/products/arc-plasma-speaker-kit
These were commercialized in the 50s or 60s, but they produce ozone and are inefficient. Once conventional drivers got frequency response beyond our hearing range, that was the end of them.
sound and music freak since childhood, and have a
houseful of speakers, though no plasmas yet.......
the latest additions are yamaha ns1000s with their
Be domes; very interesting. sound great!
my favorites (have 2 pair) are the leak 3090s
with wharfedale ribbon tweeters and styrofoam-
sandwich 8s and 15s. best piano speakers I've
ever heard. but then, there are the steinway
speaker sets for $130,000 which I'd like to hear.
very interesting subject -- people don't know that
their speakers are the controlling factor in sound
reproduction;;; if the speaker can't make the sound,
nothing pushing it can make up for it. -- j
Been messing around building speakers for a few years. Used to really like the sound of horns, and had a pair of Klipschorns in college (obtained very unusually). Most recently experimenting with full-range bass reproduction, although there is nothing like a clean tweeter to make the speakers sound real. I want to try a planar or other array next to represent a large driver area with a bunch of small speakers.
a set of supertweeters I'd put on top of them. david
hafler's kilowatt amp, a mackie 14-channel mixer
and a dual denon cd + a 480 nakamichi cassette
player (amazing quality reproduction) ... and 15,000
songs ... and you can rock the room. sound test
with meco's star wars mix, from the lp. good.
but at home, it's the leaks, the yamahas, a pair of
spendors, and a pair of boston acoustics for rear
ambience -- when I hang them from the ceiling
as planned.
such fun. make it sound like they're *right there*! -- j
I was highly leery of the whole situation to begin with. It was another example of a "crisis" to exploit & pass BS laws/ordinances that ordinarily would never get past those pesky & annoying voters. When the news broke out that the communists & other Alinsky-eque "organizers" were importing fellow agitators to get the emotions of the MSM and other folks around the nations on high, I wasn't surprised.
Anyways, I've been gone for a while, the past two weeks being super busy with back to school activities & other little domestic-type inconveniences and annoyances. Missed you & the others!
Don’t you think it’s a bit puzzling that the justice department is going to look at the militarizing of the police departments across the country after this administration has armed federal departments like the DOE? While I don’t like to see a militarized local group of law enforcers, I don’t want the government to confiscate anymore weapons to do what they please with either. They should clean house on the federal level first to show they understand the concern.
the competition? they would rather control us, with
no state- and local-level intervention, if they could
arrange it -- IMHO. -- j
The Gov't damn it, needs those drones! With a generation of youngsters essentially brain-dead, the rest of those who resist will be easily pickings for the guhberment troops. For more information, read near the end of Atlas Shrugged about the troopers Hank & John Galt encounter ~ that's what we're facing. But I'm sure you already have. :)
competition -- I can just see homeland security
faced off against local and state "troops" in Texas,
over states' rights issues. not a pretty sight.
and, since our kids are being turned into "drones"
in this hive, the fight against kommon kore is
even more crucial. I have no kids, but fight for
others' kids every day. -- j
p.s. thanks for the reminder about Hank & John;;
I'll enjoy revisiting that!