The problem is that the lawyer devised test for obviousness are not obviousness tests at all, they are in fact exercises in doublespeak. They basically come down to redefining lack of prior art as something not being obvious, with a lot of words and procedures to hide that fact.
Yes, it is impossible to objectively decide obviousness and hindsight clouds the judgement... but regardless, a purely subjective decision by experts is the only reasonable way to decide obviousness. The lawyer devised tests are all pure and utter bullshit.
It's a foregone conclusion that it will happen... whether it's normal or abnormal or irrelevant, it's already happened numerous times so it will happen again.
So what you are saying is that facilitating it happening more often and standing there pointing fingers and saying tuttut is some how going to make the world a better place? I don't really see how placing blame after the fact does that, but maybe that's just me being implicitly stupid.
If they drive the subsidiary into bankruptcy and give their own debt priority they can still screw you... so ask for a percentage of the net, to be paid by the studio.
Not smartest, merely highest IQ... we don't really know if he's smart since as far as (pseudo-)science is concerned he only really applied his intelligence to circle jerking... which I personally think is pretty stupid.
It's just statistics... getting into coding you have a reasonable expectation that you can make a living from it, getting into art (or sports) that expectation is entirely unreasonable... you better be prepared for the fact that the time you sink into it has just been for the love of the art, otherwise you are going to be disappointed.
My ancient 3870 with a C2D puts out better graphics than a console.
I wouldn't mind having the 1500$ of spare change to spend on say a i7-960 with a 5970 but it's completely unnecessary just to get better graphics than a console. Get a cheap quad core and a 5770 and you're done for 400$... even with this hardware there is no real comparison with consoles, for cross platform games you basically get 4x the resolution with 4xMSAA, with better textures at higher framerates. That's the difference between a low end PC and a console.
The i7-960 with a 5970 can run cross platform games at 1920x1200 with Eyefinity on 3 displays... hell it probably has the juice to spare to add stereoscopic rendering on top. That's the difference between a high end PC and a console.
Direct2Drive is abhorrent on average... but as long as you don't have to contact customer service, you can use the UK site, you don't mind keeping your own backup of the install and the the game can use original game patches they are fine.
The competition to Steam is an extreme case of caveat emptor... but I prefer all of them over Steam. I've used gamersgate, direct2drive, EA store (when they still allowed Europeans to use the US store, got Mass Effect there... a lot cheaper than on Steam) and the Atari Store (both the US and the EU store... dunno if the US store still works for Europeans). All the games I got were effectively just download with key with no added DRM shit.
It was being presented as an option for those people now unemployed. Changing your life retroactively is hard.
Just curious, that company which paid 15% below normal entry level pay... do you know any other recent hires? How many hours of unpaid overtime are they expected to perform on average?
So... unless you are the previous mentioned randian superman and can go to topcoder and own the place to put yourself into view how is a fresh student supposed to make himself employable for decent paying freelance work? You are competing against the usual assortment of east-Europeans/Asians etc who will underbid you. Far more than normal jobs this environment is a ruthless globalized meritocracy.
Which is not to say that trying to land some projects wouldn't be a better use of your time than doing nothing... but for most it's going to bring in peanuts.
"I got two phones, though: the other one is for Brenna. The whole reason I got the phone for her was that the camera takes good pictures and decent video. But it doesn't seem to work particularly well as a phone, so the rest of it is ridiculous. She hasn't mentioned the screen once, for example, even though it be mad crizp; the A4 can fuck itself. Aluminosilicate probably isn't even a real word."
"This is not true for Brenna, and the content immediately above would make her angry. She sees that phone the same way she would see a hat, or a ladle. If you had a ladle and you tried to get soup with the ladle but the soup came out, or fell out, or whatever the culinary equivalent of a lost call is, she would try to break it over her knee before throwing it in the garbage. She was calling the bank to get her password reset, and it kept dropping the call right when the man was saying "your password is,"
Mega corporations are mostly in favour of patents only because they still think they can get laws introduced to limit damages and prevent complete sales injunctions... at which point it might really be in their favour. They really don't like paying 100's of millions of dollars every time the Texas jackpot falls again though.
At the moment only the patent trolls and the lawyers always benefit from patent law, they have nothing to fear from patent war chests...
I have to agree about index finger buttons on the left of the main left mouse button... I have never been able to comfortably use them on any mouse which had them (and a lot have them).
It might have resulted as a result of the Enlightenment... but reformation gave it the room to change. Getting rid of the Catholic church and their authority to determine the only true way to read the bible allowed Christianity to change (and pull the Catholic church along for the ride).
The Hadith are the equivalent of what the Catholic church was for Christianity, it's too detailed and leaves no room for change.
Lets take hardware component manufacturers... the good ones which don't hide all their real datasheets and models behind annoying representatives. Lets take Linear Technologies, if LTSpice could simply pull up to data models from their website that would be more convenient than having to install them separately. A lot of databases would benefit from using DNS+Web instead of proprietary solutions.
PAR is not the important part of Occam. The fact that all message passing is synchronous and there is zero aliasing is what is important (it prevents a ton of errors, makes automatic reasoning about the programming much easier too). You can do synchronous message passing in any language, you can try to program aliasing free in any language too... but few people do. They'd rather create abstractions for mutex locking and then rely on programming convention and programmer infallibility for their correct use.
Modern Occam isn't 80's Occam by the way, creating complex data structures is much easier and you can pass data by reference for instance (the local reference gets destroyed when passed).
FPGAs are the best suited for this kind of experimentation. Of course if you just want an embedded system with video out you can just get a Beagleboard.
Alternative energy isn't going anywhere period for a while... it's only been hot recently, it will take two decades for all the pioneering patents to run out and it can really take of.
The US has vast deserts with very high percentage of sun shine. Solar thermal stations with liquid salt storage tanks capable of bridging night time and short heavy cloud conditions aren't that far from being competitive. Within an order of magnitude, or to put it another way... if they can knock an order of magnitude off the price it will be the cheapest energy source. Yes, you still need backup power... but gas turbines are cheap.
Building them on large scale and government buying out the patents by force would probably get you a significant part of the way (might have to shoot some hippies too to build in the deserts).
Wealth redistribution means you take money by force from one group and give it to another, without any promise of paying it back. You don't go broke that way. As for the wackademic comment... it's just my personal opinion. If you want an appeal to authority though, Marshall Brain is beyond a shadow of the doubt more of an entrepreneur than a wackademic... here are his thoughts :
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The problem is that the lawyer devised test for obviousness are not obviousness tests at all, they are in fact exercises in doublespeak. They basically come down to redefining lack of prior art as something not being obvious, with a lot of words and procedures to hide that fact.
Yes, it is impossible to objectively decide obviousness and hindsight clouds the judgement ... but regardless, a purely subjective decision by experts is the only reasonable way to decide obviousness. The lawyer devised tests are all pure and utter bullshit.
It's a foregone conclusion that it will happen ... whether it's normal or abnormal or irrelevant, it's already happened numerous times so it will happen again.
So what you are saying is that facilitating it happening more often and standing there pointing fingers and saying tuttut is some how going to make the world a better place? I don't really see how placing blame after the fact does that, but maybe that's just me being implicitly stupid.
Oops, meant revenue.
If they drive the subsidiary into bankruptcy and give their own debt priority they can still screw you ... so ask for a percentage of the net, to be paid by the studio.
It's still on the front page, the article itself just can't be reached.
Not smartest, merely highest IQ ... we don't really know if he's smart since as far as (pseudo-)science is concerned he only really applied his intelligence to circle jerking ... which I personally think is pretty stupid.
It's just statistics ... getting into coding you have a reasonable expectation that you can make a living from it, getting into art (or sports) that expectation is entirely unreasonable ... you better be prepared for the fact that the time you sink into it has just been for the love of the art, otherwise you are going to be disappointed.
My ancient 3870 with a C2D puts out better graphics than a console.
I wouldn't mind having the 1500$ of spare change to spend on say a i7-960 with a 5970 but it's completely unnecessary just to get better graphics than a console. Get a cheap quad core and a 5770 and you're done for 400$ ... even with this hardware there is no real comparison with consoles, for cross platform games you basically get 4x the resolution with 4xMSAA, with better textures at higher framerates. That's the difference between a low end PC and a console.
The i7-960 with a 5970 can run cross platform games at 1920x1200 with Eyefinity on 3 displays ... hell it probably has the juice to spare to add stereoscopic rendering on top. That's the difference between a high end PC and a console.
Direct2Drive is abhorrent on average ... but as long as you don't have to contact customer service, you can use the UK site, you don't mind keeping your own backup of the install and the the game can use original game patches they are fine.
The competition to Steam is an extreme case of caveat emptor ... but I prefer all of them over Steam. I've used gamersgate, direct2drive, EA store (when they still allowed Europeans to use the US store, got Mass Effect there ... a lot cheaper than on Steam) and the Atari Store (both the US and the EU store ... dunno if the US store still works for Europeans). All the games I got were effectively just download with key with no added DRM shit.
It was being presented as an option for those people now unemployed. Changing your life retroactively is hard.
Just curious, that company which paid 15% below normal entry level pay ... do you know any other recent hires? How many hours of unpaid overtime are they expected to perform on average?
So ... unless you are the previous mentioned randian superman and can go to topcoder and own the place to put yourself into view how is a fresh student supposed to make himself employable for decent paying freelance work? You are competing against the usual assortment of east-Europeans/Asians etc who will underbid you. Far more than normal jobs this environment is a ruthless globalized meritocracy.
Which is not to say that trying to land some projects wouldn't be a better use of your time than doing nothing ... but for most it's going to bring in peanuts.
Re-read your original post and think about what evidence you used to back up your assertion that the claims were absurd.
"I got two phones, though: the other one is for Brenna. The whole reason I got the phone for her was that the camera takes good pictures and decent video. But it doesn't seem to work particularly well as a phone, so the rest of it is ridiculous. She hasn't mentioned the screen once, for example, even though it be mad crizp; the A4 can fuck itself. Aluminosilicate probably isn't even a real word."
"This is not true for Brenna, and the content immediately above would make her angry. She sees that phone the same way she would see a hat, or a ladle. If you had a ladle and you tried to get soup with the ladle but the soup came out, or fell out, or whatever the culinary equivalent of a lost call is, she would try to break it over her knee before throwing it in the garbage. She was calling the bank to get her password reset, and it kept dropping the call right when the man was saying "your password is,"
Mega corporations are mostly in favour of patents only because they still think they can get laws introduced to limit damages and prevent complete sales injunctions ... at which point it might really be in their favour. They really don't like paying 100's of millions of dollars every time the Texas jackpot falls again though.
At the moment only the patent trolls and the lawyers always benefit from patent law, they have nothing to fear from patent war chests ...
I have to agree about index finger buttons on the left of the main left mouse button ... I have never been able to comfortably use them on any mouse which had them (and a lot have them).
Wii Play is a casual game ... but Pokemon is certainly not.
It might have resulted as a result of the Enlightenment ... but reformation gave it the room to change. Getting rid of the Catholic church and their authority to determine the only true way to read the bible allowed Christianity to change (and pull the Catholic church along for the ride).
The Hadith are the equivalent of what the Catholic church was for Christianity, it's too detailed and leaves no room for change.
They were obliged to investigate ... since when is indictment a form of investigation?
Lets take hardware component manufacturers ... the good ones which don't hide all their real datasheets and models behind annoying representatives. Lets take Linear Technologies, if LTSpice could simply pull up to data models from their website that would be more convenient than having to install them separately. A lot of databases would benefit from using DNS+Web instead of proprietary solutions.
PAR is not the important part of Occam. The fact that all message passing is synchronous and there is zero aliasing is what is important (it prevents a ton of errors, makes automatic reasoning about the programming much easier too). You can do synchronous message passing in any language, you can try to program aliasing free in any language too ... but few people do. They'd rather create abstractions for mutex locking and then rely on programming convention and programmer infallibility for their correct use.
Modern Occam isn't 80's Occam by the way, creating complex data structures is much easier and you can pass data by reference for instance (the local reference gets destroyed when passed).
http://www.javiervalcarce.eu/wiki/VHDL_Macro:_VGA80x40
FPGAs are the best suited for this kind of experimentation. Of course if you just want an embedded system with video out you can just get a Beagleboard.
Alternative energy isn't going anywhere period for a while ... it's only been hot recently, it will take two decades for all the pioneering patents to run out and it can really take of.
The US has vast deserts with very high percentage of sun shine. Solar thermal stations with liquid salt storage tanks capable of bridging night time and short heavy cloud conditions aren't that far from being competitive. Within an order of magnitude, or to put it another way ... if they can knock an order of magnitude off the price it will be the cheapest energy source. Yes, you still need backup power ... but gas turbines are cheap.
Building them on large scale and government buying out the patents by force would probably get you a significant part of the way (might have to shoot some hippies too to build in the deserts).
That's precious ... from when was this?
Wealth redistribution means you take money by force from one group and give it to another, without any promise of paying it back. You don't go broke that way. As for the wackademic comment ... it's just my personal opinion. If you want an appeal to authority though, Marshall Brain is beyond a shadow of the doubt more of an entrepreneur than a wackademic ... here are his thoughts :
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-faq.htm