A patent should be defined as a solution to a problem. Define a problem, give it to someone with no prior knowledge of the solution, ask for a solution, then compare the answers (if there are any) to the one the patent came up with. You should be able to present the problem it to peers in a field and determine if it is obvious or not based on their answers (or lack of).
Really? I literally seem to have an endless supply of mod points on slashdot because I rarely use them (and for some reason when my mod points expire I instantly have 5 again).
Oh crap your analogy still stands! Damn you drawer full of condoms!
I found that taking notes actually detracted from my involvement in lectures. I was often falling too far behind in the note taking and was too focused on trying to listen to the lecture and write my notes that I would miss the a sentence or so and suddenly not know where to go, because I didn't really process what the heck was even happening. I evolved from writing down phrases and sentences to writing down key words and short phrases with pictures and arrows just to remember what the professor is talking about when they say things like "now when delta phi is greater than omega and P, then..." Now my belief is that if your instructor isn't providing materials outside of lecture that allow you to skip note taking and just absorb the lecture, then your instructor isn't doing their job.
Of course, you can't trust your instructor to always do things properly so you need to take notes. When I needed speed, I switched to cursive, and if your complaining that cursive is "supposedly" faster than you are no better than a key-pecker complaining that typing is "supposedly" faster. It's faster and more space conservative when done properly (i.e. not drawing big loops and dotting your i's with purty little hearts), end of story. Its bonuses play off of general shape of the word and not having each letter be 100% decipherable. I can't imagine recording a lecture then going back over it. I think it would be very difficult to look things back up and would be very time consuming.
I suppose one could type notes into some electronic gadget, but chances are that would strike people as overkill. Why bother? Besides, typing does not support the kind of random access editing of one's notes that cursive writing does (or if it does, it would take too long to do it in real time while the professor is talking).
The working title of the paper is misleading, since there is no mention of "threat", an "effect", or anything of that sort. In fact, all I got out of it was that they were just debating something rather trivial and inconsequential - the definition of a "hit" in a statistical model and how using "top 1000" or so is improper based on NetFlix data.
To be honest, this isn't really "news" worthy of a front page listing.
I don't think "fewer than 83%" indicates that it is something around 82% but rather that they didn't have an actual number to give without doing more research. It could be 3%, it could be 50%. It's probably not 82%.
In my opinion a patent should only be in the form of a solution to a given problem such that you could present thus problem to individuals ignorant of the given solution and compare their solutions (if any) to the given and determine if a patent is obvious.
So if you think any sophomore level computer science student could solve a given problem then it should be easy and inexpensive to prove that is the case.
This idea was copyright 2008 JimboFBX. It may not be reproduced, retransmitted, or disseminated in any form without express written consent of JimboFBX. All rights reserved. Patent Pending.
Somehow the DOT always manages to be run by idiots. How do those people get hired their anyways? A degree in something that implies intelligence doesn't appear to be a prerequisite.
I live in Boise, ID. A very significant portion of the population here visits the non-profit skiing and recreation area about 15 miles out of town. The road to get there is a long windy path that frequently gets icey and literally has steep cliffs along the side. Last year I went up there 5 times and saw 5 accidents on that road (1, 1, 0, 2, and 1 accidents respectively). I even have a picture of an SUV completely flipped over on my iphone as proof. To make things worse, the road is narrow and *very wide* ambulances often SPEED UP IT during the winter to help assist injured skiers. Last year I had an incident where I nearly scraped against an ambulance because it was barreling around a corner, taking up a portion of my lane, which itself was already narrow because ice had formed on the right-hand side and my car wouldn't go over any further. So when federal funding comes in for these road projects, do they spend any money putting up guardrails (yes, steep cliffs and NO GUARDRAILS), widening the road, or employing other tactics to improve safety? No, they blow that money doing a very crappy job indiscriminately resurfacing half the roads in Boise by dumping gravel on it, then the next day dumping oil on it, including ones that were repaved not even a year ago. The result is dings in our windshields and poor looking roads.
So overall, this sounds about on par with DoT spending. These people deserve to get fired, their incompetence with our money is a crime against society.
What a coincidence, I've been just very recently trying to design a HUD for Crysis, which uses flash for the HUD element. Without pirating flash CS3 is there any free tools out there that is even remotely helpful? I mean, surely someone said "action script is free, and in theory I could create a graphical application that lets you place pictures on a canvas and then generate action script code for it", and then went out and did that? All i've found are some very basic code samples, a LOT of incomplete code samples that assume you already have flash (i.e. place this object, then click on it and change these options rather than telling how to change those options in action script), some inconvenient documentation that spreads out the info too far, and a GUI online app written by a 14 year old that you would hope would make flash only to find out its for the most part barely functional.
I'm making progress using http://www.actiontad.coms/ samples and FlashDevelop, but its very slow process. For example, I can add a picture, but when I try to resize it, it disappears without any errors to indicate why. Then after doing some development, I find out Crysis needs AS2 and not AS3, which is quite a bit different than AS3. Finding documentation and code samples ("pure code" samples) is even harder for AS2 than AS3 it seems.
Anyways, anyone know some GOOD AS2 documentation or GUI tools? It needs to support AS2 (and only AS2 apparently).
So if sell someone a box with a linux distribution installed on it do I need to print out all of that distribution's source code and ship it with the computer as well? If I make software that runs on a linux distribution and set linux to run that software at boot-up does that mean I'm really altering linux itself?
If I pay a lawyer enough money will they always take my case?
They probably did the contract compensating for the inevitable 18x inflation all this reckless spending and poorly thought out and executed ideas will cause.
That's not at all what I was saying, next time try to stop going into a rage after reading one sentence and letting that rage cause you to mis-interpret everything else. You are reading way too much into the way I phrased things nor are considering the possibilities that I don't live in complete isolation of every other bit of reference material about beagles available. Go google every claim I made
I never said beagle's were my favorite breed, I'm saying that it goes against my own personal experience quite drastically, and I bring up a common breed, scottish terriors, as comparison where I can say 3 for 3 the dogs I've lived with were pretty clearly not as intelligent as the beagles I own, and yet they are not on the "least intelligent" list. The article itself presents dog intelligence as if it doesnt even fully understand how a dog's brain works. Easily, a beagle presented with a treat in front of it will just gobble it up because it snapped into a non-logical state of mind, or possibly the beagle said "hey you removed a treat when I wasn't looking. Oh well, yummy".
Typical nerd behavior on the other hand is to constantly try to prove someone else wrong before considering they may be right. A better approach to things is to ask, "how can they *both* be right?"
As a owner of two beagles I disagree that beagles are "unintelligent", which makes me question the validity of these findings. I dont even see a mention of how many dogs of each breed they used, you can't just grab one dog and generalize the breed based on it. One of the beagles I own is very human-like in some aspects. For example, I left some chicken nuggets out on a table in the McDonalds box half open. She tried to sneak out a SINGLE nugget and eat it, hoping that I wouldn't be able to notice the number discrepancy of the amount left over (there were six). In fact, she often tries to sneak things when she checks that you aren't looking. However, she always knows when my Fiance is gone for the weekend by the suitcase being packed with clothes. With no direct treat/reward there is no logical explanation except that the dog put 2 + 2 together.
Likewise, my other beagle know's the following tricks: Sit, Stay, Come, Lay-down, Roll-over, Stand-up, jump (touches his nose to my hand by jump, like a dolphin), shake, high five, *bang!* (play dead), gentle, and kennel.
What is different though is that beagle's are stubborn and their logic tends to be short fused or easily over-ridden by sense of smell and their garbage gut that is always hungry. As Cesar Millan puts it, dogs have a state of mind, and in the case of the beagle it is easy for it to *snap*. It doesn't mean they are unintelligent when in the proper state of mind though, but in certain states of mind they are very single-minded.
In contrast, I've grown up with three generations of scottish terriors and all three have exhibited behavior that shows them as less intelligent than beagles in pretty much every respect.
People seem to be confusing IT and computer science. There is a difference between programming and plugging in a modem. Computer Scientists make stuff. IT uses other people's stuff. Maybe 20 years ago they were the same thing...
That is just how to transmit 3d to a compatible TV over the air using the available bandwidth. I'm saying if you buy a 120 Hz that doesn't have a "3d ready" sticker on it right now, it wouldn't take 120 hz input from any device, even your PC. Likewise, it wouldn't support the over-the-air standard you just mentioned. Its false advertising. Its implied a 120 Hz TV should accept 120 Hz input, and naturally a PC monitor input should be able to accept that but it doesn't.
Alright, now we just need 3d compatible TVs being sold. You know those 120 Hz "truemotion" TVs you see everywhere? They don't accept 120 Hz input, only 60Hz, so they don't support 3D shutter glasses. Flagrant false advertising if you ask me.
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Solution: store all the payment and shipping information before hand (90% of responses)
Patent solution: store all the payment and shipping information before hand
Patent is obvious
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A patent should be defined as a solution to a problem. Define a problem, give it to someone with no prior knowledge of the solution, ask for a solution, then compare the answers (if there are any) to the one the patent came up with. You should be able to present the problem it to peers in a field and determine if it is obvious or not based on their answers (or lack of).
Yes, because thats 1 trillion dollars we set on fire and said to all the other nations "dont worry about it, we lost it for good"
Its not like that 1 trillion went to some of the hardest working US citizens who in turn stimulated the economy with it.
Really? I literally seem to have an endless supply of mod points on slashdot because I rarely use them (and for some reason when my mod points expire I instantly have 5 again).
Oh crap your analogy still stands! Damn you drawer full of condoms!
Are you on a "The 5th Element" scavenger hunt or something? ;)
What is amazing if you think about it is how far and fast insects can go with so little energy consumption. In contrast, a simple little radio...
Of course, you can't trust your instructor to always do things properly so you need to take notes. When I needed speed, I switched to cursive, and if your complaining that cursive is "supposedly" faster than you are no better than a key-pecker complaining that typing is "supposedly" faster. It's faster and more space conservative when done properly (i.e. not drawing big loops and dotting your i's with purty little hearts), end of story. Its bonuses play off of general shape of the word and not having each letter be 100% decipherable. I can't imagine recording a lecture then going back over it. I think it would be very difficult to look things back up and would be very time consuming.
I suppose one could type notes into some electronic gadget, but chances are that would strike people as overkill. Why bother? Besides, typing does not support the kind of random access editing of one's notes that cursive writing does (or if it does, it would take too long to do it in real time while the professor is talking).
May I introduce you to Microsoft OneNote?
The working title of the paper is misleading, since there is no mention of "threat", an "effect", or anything of that sort. In fact, all I got out of it was that they were just debating something rather trivial and inconsequential - the definition of a "hit" in a statistical model and how using "top 1000" or so is improper based on NetFlix data.
To be honest, this isn't really "news" worthy of a front page listing.
I don't think "fewer than 83%" indicates that it is something around 82% but rather that they didn't have an actual number to give without doing more research. It could be 3%, it could be 50%. It's probably not 82%.
In my opinion a patent should only be in the form of a solution to a given problem such that you could present thus problem to individuals ignorant of the given solution and compare their solutions (if any) to the given and determine if a patent is obvious.
So if you think any sophomore level computer science student could solve a given problem then it should be easy and inexpensive to prove that is the case.
This idea was copyright 2008 JimboFBX. It may not be reproduced, retransmitted, or disseminated in any form without express written consent of JimboFBX. All rights reserved. Patent Pending.
Somehow the DOT always manages to be run by idiots. How do those people get hired their anyways? A degree in something that implies intelligence doesn't appear to be a prerequisite.
I live in Boise, ID. A very significant portion of the population here visits the non-profit skiing and recreation area about 15 miles out of town. The road to get there is a long windy path that frequently gets icey and literally has steep cliffs along the side. Last year I went up there 5 times and saw 5 accidents on that road (1, 1, 0, 2, and 1 accidents respectively). I even have a picture of an SUV completely flipped over on my iphone as proof. To make things worse, the road is narrow and *very wide* ambulances often SPEED UP IT during the winter to help assist injured skiers. Last year I had an incident where I nearly scraped against an ambulance because it was barreling around a corner, taking up a portion of my lane, which itself was already narrow because ice had formed on the right-hand side and my car wouldn't go over any further. So when federal funding comes in for these road projects, do they spend any money putting up guardrails (yes, steep cliffs and NO GUARDRAILS), widening the road, or employing other tactics to improve safety? No, they blow that money doing a very crappy job indiscriminately resurfacing half the roads in Boise by dumping gravel on it, then the next day dumping oil on it, including ones that were repaved not even a year ago. The result is dings in our windshields and poor looking roads.
So overall, this sounds about on par with DoT spending. These people deserve to get fired, their incompetence with our money is a crime against society.
What a coincidence, I've been just very recently trying to design a HUD for Crysis, which uses flash for the HUD element. Without pirating flash CS3 is there any free tools out there that is even remotely helpful? I mean, surely someone said "action script is free, and in theory I could create a graphical application that lets you place pictures on a canvas and then generate action script code for it", and then went out and did that? All i've found are some very basic code samples, a LOT of incomplete code samples that assume you already have flash (i.e. place this object, then click on it and change these options rather than telling how to change those options in action script), some inconvenient documentation that spreads out the info too far, and a GUI online app written by a 14 year old that you would hope would make flash only to find out its for the most part barely functional.
I'm making progress using http://www.actiontad.coms/ samples and FlashDevelop, but its very slow process. For example, I can add a picture, but when I try to resize it, it disappears without any errors to indicate why. Then after doing some development, I find out Crysis needs AS2 and not AS3, which is quite a bit different than AS3. Finding documentation and code samples ("pure code" samples) is even harder for AS2 than AS3 it seems.
Anyways, anyone know some GOOD AS2 documentation or GUI tools? It needs to support AS2 (and only AS2 apparently).
only about 10% of people with an opinion on LAN play are planning on buying a copy of SCII that doesn't include it.
The other 90% plan on pirating it?
So if sell someone a box with a linux distribution installed on it do I need to print out all of that distribution's source code and ship it with the computer as well? If I make software that runs on a linux distribution and set linux to run that software at boot-up does that mean I'm really altering linux itself?
If I pay a lawyer enough money will they always take my case?
They probably did the contract compensating for the inevitable 18x inflation all this reckless spending and poorly thought out and executed ideas will cause.
That's not at all what I was saying, next time try to stop going into a rage after reading one sentence and letting that rage cause you to mis-interpret everything else. You are reading way too much into the way I phrased things nor are considering the possibilities that I don't live in complete isolation of every other bit of reference material about beagles available. Go google every claim I made
I never said beagle's were my favorite breed, I'm saying that it goes against my own personal experience quite drastically, and I bring up a common breed, scottish terriors, as comparison where I can say 3 for 3 the dogs I've lived with were pretty clearly not as intelligent as the beagles I own, and yet they are not on the "least intelligent" list. The article itself presents dog intelligence as if it doesnt even fully understand how a dog's brain works. Easily, a beagle presented with a treat in front of it will just gobble it up because it snapped into a non-logical state of mind, or possibly the beagle said "hey you removed a treat when I wasn't looking. Oh well, yummy".
Typical nerd behavior on the other hand is to constantly try to prove someone else wrong before considering they may be right. A better approach to things is to ask, "how can they *both* be right?"
oh I do. He's so cute though I cannot resist giving him what he wants.
Where do you get that info?
That doesn't make any sense, cats are clearly democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT4mFkYp1Yw
As a owner of two beagles I disagree that beagles are "unintelligent", which makes me question the validity of these findings. I dont even see a mention of how many dogs of each breed they used, you can't just grab one dog and generalize the breed based on it. One of the beagles I own is very human-like in some aspects. For example, I left some chicken nuggets out on a table in the McDonalds box half open. She tried to sneak out a SINGLE nugget and eat it, hoping that I wouldn't be able to notice the number discrepancy of the amount left over (there were six). In fact, she often tries to sneak things when she checks that you aren't looking. However, she always knows when my Fiance is gone for the weekend by the suitcase being packed with clothes. With no direct treat/reward there is no logical explanation except that the dog put 2 + 2 together.
Likewise, my other beagle know's the following tricks: Sit, Stay, Come, Lay-down, Roll-over, Stand-up, jump (touches his nose to my hand by jump, like a dolphin), shake, high five, *bang!* (play dead), gentle, and kennel.
What is different though is that beagle's are stubborn and their logic tends to be short fused or easily over-ridden by sense of smell and their garbage gut that is always hungry. As Cesar Millan puts it, dogs have a state of mind, and in the case of the beagle it is easy for it to *snap*. It doesn't mean they are unintelligent when in the proper state of mind though, but in certain states of mind they are very single-minded.
In contrast, I've grown up with three generations of scottish terriors and all three have exhibited behavior that shows them as less intelligent than beagles in pretty much every respect.
People seem to be confusing IT and computer science. There is a difference between programming and plugging in a modem. Computer Scientists make stuff. IT uses other people's stuff. Maybe 20 years ago they were the same thing...
Unless you're drunk, then we think punching the problem in the face works pretty well.
That is just how to transmit 3d to a compatible TV over the air using the available bandwidth. I'm saying if you buy a 120 Hz that doesn't have a "3d ready" sticker on it right now, it wouldn't take 120 hz input from any device, even your PC. Likewise, it wouldn't support the over-the-air standard you just mentioned. Its false advertising. Its implied a 120 Hz TV should accept 120 Hz input, and naturally a PC monitor input should be able to accept that but it doesn't.
Alright, now we just need 3d compatible TVs being sold. You know those 120 Hz "truemotion" TVs you see everywhere? They don't accept 120 Hz input, only 60Hz, so they don't support 3D shutter glasses. Flagrant false advertising if you ask me.