我们对你的发明进行了严格的试验，但是我非常遗憾地通知你，试验结果是彻底失败的。

We put your invention through the acid test, and, I'm extremely sorry to tell you, failed miserably.

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大家是否还记得这样一个都市神话？ 一位发明者申请了永亮灯的专利，结果是专利被灯具制造商们联合买断，之后为了利益，制造商们把专利销毁了。

REMEMBER the urban myth about the inventor who patented a light bulb that would last for ever, only to see the patent snapped up by a consortium of manufacturers who buried it for good?

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结果是，这类发明通常要求发明者直接进入计算机制造行业，而不是卖给现在的制造商，这就增加了许多不必要的成本。

As a result, such innovations usually require the inventor to enter the computer manufacturing business, rather than selling to an existing manufacturer, entailing many otherwise unnecessary costs.

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