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...famous tubular steel chairs with their bands of stretched black canvas, a skeletal combination of lines and taut planes that looked like an X-ray of a chair. Even then, while factory production may have been the aspiration for many pieces, old-fashioned handcraft may still have been the method behind them. The interlocking grids of Albers' glasswork Goldrosa give it a rectitude that says "modern," but the complicated technique used to produce it was practically medieval...
...bench seemed to reflect this view, and several Justices suggested somewhat humorously that if the Bilski argument were to proceed, a number of other ludicrous patents could be issued. Justice Antonin Scalia asked if under Bilski's argument, methods of horse-training could be patented, while the court's newest member, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, asked if a "method of speed-dating" was patentable...
...started in 1997 when a little-known company wanted to patent a method for letting customers of utility companies pay a fixed, predictable sum each month. The patent office rejected their application on the grounds that it was "an abstract idea that simply solves a mathematical problem...
Tech powers IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and financial firms like American Express and Goldman Sachs control hundreds of such business-method patents for everything from search-engine optimization to risk assessment. And if you have ever bought something on Amazon, you've probably used the company's patented 1-Click ordering process. (See the 50 best websites...
...move the grading scale up and give out more A-pluses and As. Instituting A-pluses will be ineffective if it is not accompanied by grading discipline on the part of course leaders. However, this effort, to actually preserve the way they grade, seems easier than any other method of grade differentiation. In any case, something must be done, because, eight years after The Boston Globe declared our grading system the “laughingstock of the Ivy League,” we haven’t progressed very far. The point of grades should be to emphasize relative...