Comments for Ch. Tronche's blog http://tronche.com/blog Mes pensées afin que je ne les oublie pas... Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:39:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 Comment on The french President, the Prime Minister, and the Hollande-Royal family by Cleon Bazinet http://tronche.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-french-president-the-prime-minister-and-the-hollande-royal-family/#comment-13084 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-french-president-the-prime-minister-and-the-hollande-royal-family/#comment-13084 Men have become the tools of their tools. Men have become the tools of their tools.

]]> Comment on A sad outcome of french elections by Ch. Tronche http://tronche.com/blog/2007/06/18/a-sad-outcome-of-french-elections/#comment-12042 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2007/06/18/a-sad-outcome-of-french-elections/#comment-12042 Elected president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia also broke up a few months after the elections (and they have children together). The heart fall sadly goes on... Elected president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia also broke up a few months after the elections (and they have children together).

The heart fall sadly goes on…

]]> Comment on The thin line between IP and protectionism by Ch. Tronche’s blog » Qualcomm, Broadcom, and the valuation of patents. http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/08/the-thin-line-between-ip-and-protectionism/#comment-9207 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/08/the-thin-line-between-ip-and-protectionism/#comment-9207 [...] You may remember that Broadcom claims Qualcomm is infringing some of its patents, and thus got a ban on Qualcomm patents based cell phone chips. [...] […] You may remember that Broadcom claims Qualcomm is infringing some of its patents, and thus got a ban on Qualcomm patents based cell phone chips. […]

]]> Comment on The french President, the Prime Minister, and the Hollande-Royal family by Ch. Tronche’s blog » A sad outcome of french elections http://tronche.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-french-president-the-prime-minister-and-the-hollande-royal-family/#comment-7108 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-french-president-the-prime-minister-and-the-hollande-royal-family/#comment-7108 [...] I once questionned how life would look like with both mandates of the President and the Prime Minister in the hands of only one almost married couple. [...] […] I once questionned how life would look like with both mandates of the President and the Prime Minister in the hands of only one almost married couple. […]

]]> Comment on Marketing, stratégie de choix et le deuxième tour des élections présidentielles françaises by Ch. Tronche’s blog » The marketing of the “Parti Socialiste” brand name http://tronche.com/blog/2007/05/05/marketing-strategie-de-choix-et-le-deuxieme-tour-des-elections-presidentielles-francaises/#comment-4787 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2007/05/05/marketing-strategie-de-choix-et-le-deuxieme-tour-des-elections-presidentielles-francaises/#comment-4787 [...] My wife was surprised by his choice of Nicolas Sarkozy, because, although his team did a great job in trying to be as much as possible friendly in a specific way with everyone (see my previous post), his views on national identity and its tactical proximity with the far-right Front National don’t paint him as the best possible person against discrimination in the conventional wisdom. Further questioning the driver, he added that “I know, but France his going bad anyway - and this is all the PS’s fault“. I’m not sure if France is going so bad, but this is a widely held view here anyway - and has been for at least the last 30 years. I know, I was there. [...] […] My wife was surprised by his choice of Nicolas Sarkozy, because, although his team did a great job in trying to be as much as possible friendly in a specific way with everyone (see my previous post), his views on national identity and its tactical proximity with the far-right Front National don’t paint him as the best possible person against discrimination in the conventional wisdom. Further questioning the driver, he added that “I know, but France his going bad anyway - and this is all the PS’s fault“. I’m not sure if France is going so bad, but this is a widely held view here anyway - and has been for at least the last 30 years. I know, I was there. […]

]]> Comment on The french President, the Prime Minister, and the Hollande-Royal family by Ch. Tronche’s blog » Marketing, stratégie de choix et le deuxième tour des élections présidentielles françaises http://tronche.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-french-president-the-prime-minister-and-the-hollande-royal-family/#comment-4748 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-french-president-the-prime-minister-and-the-hollande-royal-family/#comment-4748 [...] Ségolène Royal est arrivée au 2nd Tour (cf. mon post précédent). [...] […] Ségolène Royal est arrivée au 2nd Tour (cf. mon post précédent). […]

]]> Comment on Tronche’s software separability test. by Frederik Hertzum http://tronche.com/blog/2006/07/14/tronches-software-separability-criterion/#comment-1553 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2006/07/14/tronches-software-separability-criterion/#comment-1553 Your test still holds some problems -- it's good and will likely be enough for most cases. I propose instead that a different approach can be taken. It is more complex, but I don't think you can make a good seperation between patentable and non-patentable machines without at least some complexity. First of all you have to acknowledge that a program (software) is a machine. it is not all that different from any other machine, except that the reality it exists in is different and thus it plays by different rules. Machines that are not software, are hardware and can not be used in hardware. Machines that are not hardware are software and can not be used without hardware. Now, to test if a machine is patentable you simple ask if it requires hardware. If it does, then (since it's software), it's non-patentable. Any piece of hardware that requires another piece of hardware to do it's thing is still patentable, because it doesn't really require hardware to do anything -- it just requires hardware to do the one (or more) right thing(s): You should note that human minds are machines according to this context, and so anything that can be passed as software should also fit in our mind (since the mind can solve any turing problem it should hold true for any real software) -- so it should be enough to be able to solve a given problem in our minds to prove that a machine is not patentable. Your test still holds some problems — it’s good and will likely be enough for most cases. I propose instead that a different approach can be taken. It is more complex, but I don’t think you can make a good seperation between patentable and non-patentable machines without at least some complexity.

First of all you have to acknowledge that a program (software) is a machine. it is not all that different from any other machine, except that the reality it exists in is different and thus it plays by different rules.

Machines that are not software, are hardware and can not be used in hardware. Machines that are not hardware are software and can not be used without hardware.

Now, to test if a machine is patentable you simple ask if it requires hardware. If it does, then (since it’s software), it’s non-patentable. Any piece of hardware that requires another piece of hardware to do it’s thing is still patentable, because it doesn’t really require hardware to do anything — it just requires hardware to do the one (or more) right thing(s):

You should note that human minds are machines according to this context, and so anything that can be passed as software should also fit in our mind (since the mind can solve any turing problem it should hold true for any real software) — so it should be enough to be able to solve a given problem in our minds to prove that a machine is not patentable.

]]> Comment on J’ai installé WordPress… by Ch. Tronche’s blog » A blog on my attempt to blog http://tronche.com/blog/2006/01/14/jai-installe-wordpress/#comment-3 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://tronche.com/blog/2006/01/14/jai-installe-wordpress/#comment-3 [...] The original post is at http://tronche.com/blog/?p=3 [...] […] The original post is at http://tronche.com/blog/?p=3 […]

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