Right, but the problem was that Poultney was trying to register it for *everything* computing related, not just for hosting services & products. Had he been more decent in what field his trademark was covered for, there wouldn't have been a problem.
The Python compiler is the native code compiler used in (likely) the most popular Common Lisp implementation on the planet, SBCL. It was originally part of CMUCL, which SBCL initially forked from, and predated "that other scripting language".
It's not that hard to coexist with conflicting names, if you're not an idiot. Obviously, that's not the case with this CEO, and Tim Poultney's name will be linked to this asinine attempt at overreach for the foreseeable future.
The next Xbox and Playstation likely aren't have going to have impressive GPUs by even today's standards. MS and Sony are being relatively conservative in the hardware design for whatever combination of reasons.
Not to mention that according to other posts on this page, the research was done by PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, not the "companies" the judge claims to want to protect.
And how is "all about sales" any different than Sony or Nintendo's gaming platforms?
That's irrelevant. Each owner is justified in complaining about spam-related features added to their gaming experience, regardless of what does or doesn't appear elsewhere.
Unfortunately, yes, that sort of thing is popping up across the board, but just because more manufacturers are doing it doesn't mean it's not complaint-worthy.
In the early 1970s, Mycin achieved 69% accuracy of prescribing a "correct" treatment for a patient's condition, which was deemed better than human specialists.
The linked articles don't seem to include the absolute accuracy that it achieves, just the relative accuracy against doctors. I wonder if we've come any further than the basic expert system rules allowed 40 years ago.
Deployments like this tend to lock out all software but what's been specifically written to be deployed for the police. The consumer ecosystem is irrelevant.
In what way is the screen worse? The Nexus resolution is better, the brightness, colors, and viewing angles are good in all top-brand models, not just these.
NFC and a "barometer" are useless to police.
NFC may or may not be, depending on how they set up their infrastructure. But the point is that the availability of more hardware at a lower price speaks against the raw purchased value of Apple's devices for large custom deployments.
And what about support? Apple has extensive worldwide support. Can you honestly say the same for Google hardware (hint: NO).
What "support" are you talking about? The police would be supported solely through their custom software provider, and basic hardware purchasing/warranty/returns through Google if they went that route.
Any standard that demands such specific width & height values be manually entered and numerically described is pointless. UI specs need to deal with general layout role indications, not try to lock into pixel-perfect "dumb" layouts that cannot manage being rendered with different fonts, resolutions, or aspect ratios.
but for most people the free alternatives are perfectly fine.
That's the operative word. For many large corporate installations, all sorts of macro suites, plugins, weird data feature usage, etc, are all wound up in being MS Office specific. It's too entrenched to toss it for another platform.
Big things don't happen without concentration of wealth giving people the opportunity to fund them and take large risks.
Throughout modern and ancient history, you'll find the "big names" were almost always backed by the funding of private magnates, aristocrats, religious organizations, and other concentrations of money. Otherwise, they'd be eccentrics doing small stuff in their garage that would be forgotten to time.
This is the real problem with old hardware like that.
In contrast, many retro home computers take very little power. A Commodore 64 with an old inefficient linear regulator based power supply still only drew up to 15W from the wall.
"Social engineering" is getting people to do exactly what you want them to do, that they normally wouldn't do, without them realizing that anything's amiss. But yeah, while that inevitably necessitates deception, I wouldn't say it's defined as deception.
1) As mentioned, free up his brain in not distracting it by having to think about typing. 2) Leaving a stand-out positive impression about how good he is, among other amateur programmers at similar skill levels.
I cannot impress the importance of #2 enough, when it comes to interviews or academic connections. Having a natural, comfortable demeanor while working makes you look more confident and competent than your hunt'n'peck sloppy-postured neighbors.
Of course, his actual programming skills will be determined by his own self-study, and that will eventually overwhelm the other factors, but good typing skills will make him stand apart in a very *socially* competitive environment.
I'm not a Steam user, nor do I want to be, but Valve has grown huge customer trust and goodwill by supporting & upgrading games after they've been released, great sales (which I suspect are the majority of their transactions, if not revenue), being good to indie developers, and other positive practices.
Steam took a long time to take off because at face value, yes their model is as evil, but their practice has been good and they've earned their market.
I don't understand why simply being able to get the games cheaper suddenly makes Steam less evil than this alleged thing that Microsoft is cooking up. You're still losing the right to resale or to buy used or to play without any online connection.
People are a lot more okay with not being able to resell a $10 game than they are about a $60 one, but even with $60 ones many people take the no-resell option in exchange for easy media-free installation on any machine as a tradeoff. The "no online connection" thing, yeah, that's more evil than Steam. Single player Steam games play offline.
Yes, but I don't think the publishers know that, especially as they're tending to put more of the actual complete story in DLC rather than in the game proper.
It's trending towards effectively $60 shareware demos.
It doesn't even need any of that. The government's path of destruction to the US's economy will demolish the nation before any of those other scenarios set in, and will help neuter the power of the government.
As an easy example, take experiments on humans: disable or remove a part of the brain, and we lose the functionality associated with that part. Re-enable that part and functionality returns.
That's actually not always true. When part of the brain is damaged or removed, partial or sometimes even full functionality can be restored by other parts of the brain retraining to take over that task.
Results like that clearly demonstrate that no matter what unfalsifiable hypothesis you choose to believe regarding consciousness being some substrate-independant magical energy, it's at least necessarily the result of the operation of the brain.
Um, okay. Random hostilities inbound? When did I ever bring up anything like that?
Now your part: which "problematic things" that prevent the brain/mind being identical to a neural network are you talking about? References please, or did you weaken your statement so much by adding the "ultra-simplistic" stipulation that you're guaranteed to by right (and meaningless)- like the Discovery Institute when they use the phrase "Darwinian Natural Selection cannot account for the observed biodiversity".
Neural networks are defined, in the computer algorithm sense, as multiply/add/clamp operations on each node in directed layers. Scientists now believe that the frequency of impulses, not just their presence or amplitude, also factor into neural behavior. Plus, there is a lot of chemistry going on in the brain which affects large swathes of neurons wholesale, and potentially different neurons in different ways. There are lots of physical things going on in the brain that have no correspondence in neural network algorithms, and thus are not modeled in it.
A neural network can't make a replica of the brain, because the neural network algorithm is too simplistic. We do not yet know what all of the chemical and electrical interactions in the brain are, and the ones we do know (or have good basis to assume are meaningful in the brain) are not modeled at all in NNs, and there's no reason to believe that adding more neurons to a NN would be sufficient to model the physical chemical behaviors of the brain properly, especially when it comes to time-based functions like firing frequency.
Obama is saying these people should become job creators here, yet he always speaks against the business owners already here, and about sticking the screws to them because they're not doing their "fare share". Is pushing the countries attitudes and legislation in that direction really going to help entice immigration to start businesses? Or are they going to do it back home, or from a more amicable country with lower corporate tax rates*, and still sell to the world?
*(The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, and unless you've got a lot of money to throw at it like the big players do, you're not going to be discounting it effectively.)
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Right, but the problem was that Poultney was trying to register it for *everything* computing related, not just for hosting services & products. Had he been more decent in what field his trademark was covered for, there wouldn't have been a problem.
The Python compiler is the native code compiler used in (likely) the most popular Common Lisp implementation on the planet, SBCL. It was originally part of CMUCL, which SBCL initially forked from, and predated "that other scripting language".
It's not that hard to coexist with conflicting names, if you're not an idiot. Obviously, that's not the case with this CEO, and Tim Poultney's name will be linked to this asinine attempt at overreach for the foreseeable future.
The next Xbox and Playstation likely aren't have going to have impressive GPUs by even today's standards. MS and Sony are being relatively conservative in the hardware design for whatever combination of reasons.
So all politicians give out tax suspensions?
Zing!
They cover a gigantic chunk of land, so that bumps their statistical odds quite a bit.
Not to mention that according to other posts on this page, the research was done by PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, not the "companies" the judge claims to want to protect.
And how is "all about sales" any different than Sony or Nintendo's gaming platforms?
That's irrelevant. Each owner is justified in complaining about spam-related features added to their gaming experience, regardless of what does or doesn't appear elsewhere.
Unfortunately, yes, that sort of thing is popping up across the board, but just because more manufacturers are doing it doesn't mean it's not complaint-worthy.
In the early 1970s, Mycin achieved 69% accuracy of prescribing a "correct" treatment for a patient's condition, which was deemed better than human specialists.
The linked articles don't seem to include the absolute accuracy that it achieves, just the relative accuracy against doctors. I wonder if we've come any further than the basic expert system rules allowed 40 years ago.
It has much less software, and a worse screen.
Deployments like this tend to lock out all software but what's been specifically written to be deployed for the police. The consumer ecosystem is irrelevant.
In what way is the screen worse? The Nexus resolution is better, the brightness, colors, and viewing angles are good in all top-brand models, not just these.
NFC and a "barometer" are useless to police.
NFC may or may not be, depending on how they set up their infrastructure. But the point is that the availability of more hardware at a lower price speaks against the raw purchased value of Apple's devices for large custom deployments.
And what about support? Apple has extensive worldwide support. Can you honestly say the same for Google hardware (hint: NO).
What "support" are you talking about? The police would be supported solely through their custom software provider, and basic hardware purchasing/warranty/returns through Google if they went that route.
Any standard that demands such specific width & height values be manually entered and numerically described is pointless. UI specs need to deal with general layout role indications, not try to lock into pixel-perfect "dumb" layouts that cannot manage being rendered with different fonts, resolutions, or aspect ratios.
but for most people the free alternatives are perfectly fine.
That's the operative word. For many large corporate installations, all sorts of macro suites, plugins, weird data feature usage, etc, are all wound up in being MS Office specific. It's too entrenched to toss it for another platform.
(in before "corporations are people LOL")
Big things don't happen without concentration of wealth giving people the opportunity to fund them and take large risks.
Throughout modern and ancient history, you'll find the "big names" were almost always backed by the funding of private magnates, aristocrats, religious organizations, and other concentrations of money. Otherwise, they'd be eccentrics doing small stuff in their garage that would be forgotten to time.
This is the real problem with old hardware like that.
In contrast, many retro home computers take very little power. A Commodore 64 with an old inefficient linear regulator based power supply still only drew up to 15W from the wall.
"Social engineering" is getting people to do exactly what you want them to do, that they normally wouldn't do, without them realizing that anything's amiss. But yeah, while that inevitably necessitates deception, I wouldn't say it's defined as deception.
Good typing skills will
1) As mentioned, free up his brain in not distracting it by having to think about typing.
2) Leaving a stand-out positive impression about how good he is, among other amateur programmers at similar skill levels.
I cannot impress the importance of #2 enough, when it comes to interviews or academic connections. Having a natural, comfortable demeanor while working makes you look more confident and competent than your hunt'n'peck sloppy-postured neighbors.
Of course, his actual programming skills will be determined by his own self-study, and that will eventually overwhelm the other factors, but good typing skills will make him stand apart in a very *socially* competitive environment.
I'm not a Steam user, nor do I want to be, but Valve has grown huge customer trust and goodwill by supporting & upgrading games after they've been released, great sales (which I suspect are the majority of their transactions, if not revenue), being good to indie developers, and other positive practices.
Steam took a long time to take off because at face value, yes their model is as evil, but their practice has been good and they've earned their market.
I don't understand why simply being able to get the games cheaper suddenly makes Steam less evil than this alleged thing that Microsoft is cooking up. You're still losing the right to resale or to buy used or to play without any online connection.
People are a lot more okay with not being able to resell a $10 game than they are about a $60 one, but even with $60 ones many people take the no-resell option in exchange for easy media-free installation on any machine as a tradeoff. The "no online connection" thing, yeah, that's more evil than Steam. Single player Steam games play offline.
Yes, but I don't think the publishers know that, especially as they're tending to put more of the actual complete story in DLC rather than in the game proper.
It's trending towards effectively $60 shareware demos.
Only $60 per game? I think you're forgetting about that whole DLC thing.
Yes there was, and thanks for reminding me to tag this one.
It doesn't even need any of that. The government's path of destruction to the US's economy will demolish the nation before any of those other scenarios set in, and will help neuter the power of the government.
First thing I'd do is automatically set a random MAC address on every connection.
As an easy example, take experiments on humans: disable or remove a part of the brain, and we lose the functionality associated with that part. Re-enable that part and functionality returns.
That's actually not always true. When part of the brain is damaged or removed, partial or sometimes even full functionality can be restored by other parts of the brain retraining to take over that task.
Results like that clearly demonstrate that no matter what unfalsifiable hypothesis you choose to believe regarding consciousness being some substrate-independant magical energy, it's at least necessarily the result of the operation of the brain.
Um, okay. Random hostilities inbound? When did I ever bring up anything like that?
Now your part: which "problematic things" that prevent the brain/mind being identical to a neural network are you talking about? References please, or did you weaken your statement so much by adding the "ultra-simplistic" stipulation that you're guaranteed to by right (and meaningless)- like the Discovery Institute when they use the phrase "Darwinian Natural Selection cannot account for the observed biodiversity".
Neural networks are defined, in the computer algorithm sense, as multiply/add/clamp operations on each node in directed layers. Scientists now believe that the frequency of impulses, not just their presence or amplitude, also factor into neural behavior. Plus, there is a lot of chemistry going on in the brain which affects large swathes of neurons wholesale, and potentially different neurons in different ways. There are lots of physical things going on in the brain that have no correspondence in neural network algorithms, and thus are not modeled in it.
A neural network can't make a replica of the brain, because the neural network algorithm is too simplistic. We do not yet know what all of the chemical and electrical interactions in the brain are, and the ones we do know (or have good basis to assume are meaningful in the brain) are not modeled at all in NNs, and there's no reason to believe that adding more neurons to a NN would be sufficient to model the physical chemical behaviors of the brain properly, especially when it comes to time-based functions like firing frequency.
The problem I see here is two-facedness.
Obama is saying these people should become job creators here, yet he always speaks against the business owners already here, and about sticking the screws to them because they're not doing their "fare share". Is pushing the countries attitudes and legislation in that direction really going to help entice immigration to start businesses? Or are they going to do it back home, or from a more amicable country with lower corporate tax rates*, and still sell to the world?
*(The US has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, and unless you've got a lot of money to throw at it like the big players do, you're not going to be discounting it effectively.)
Come to think of it, that is also why GOOGLE is building more devices now without an SD port now also. Performance is guaranteed.
No. Google is not including SD ports solely because they want to force everybody to use their online services for storage and streaming.
The US could simply pressure the WTO to reverse that permit, instead of trying to think up "legal" ways to go against Antigua directly.