So... how is that different from now? Patent trolls trample over prior art with the system as it is today, the change to first to file doesn't change that in the slightest. All it does is reduce the costs associated with a review if two similar applications are received at nearly the same time. Incidentally, this is exactly how most of the Western world's patent systems work, and they have no more, and often quite less, trouble with patent trolls than the US does.
I wouldn't want my games up in Intel's cloud somewhere where I don't have any control and where I have to rely on my ISP to provide good latency. But it might be interesting to me to have a single powerful home server and then a couple laptops and a couple tablets that are basically IO devices and little else. Granted, you couldn't have everyone doing demanding, graphically intense games at all times, but a reasonably powerful desktop server should be more than capable of rendering 2x1080p laptop screens and 2x720p tablet screens, which is all most people have these days anyway (damn HDTV to hell for making people think 1080p is 'high resolution' for a PC monitor!). Of course, I'm not sure a wireless N network would keep up with the bandwidth requirements, but then you'd have the same exact problem (only much worse) trying to put those services on Intel servers in a datacenter somewhere.
Occasionally someone at my place of business somehow manages to send an email out to everyone in the department, or division, or even the whole company. Even on modern hardware the network will struggle if you send an email out to several hundreds or even thousands of recipients. But that wouldn't be so bad, what really finishes off the network are the several dozen people who feel the need to Reply All just to say "please remove me from this email last". Of course, after a dozen or so of those go out, you end up with two or three people sending a Reply All just to say "please stop sending your removal requests Reply All" The last one went out to 500 employees and I ended up with 40+ copies of the email in my inbox because of people being absolutely stupid.
Of the 635 apps that they looked at, they confidently identified 68 as having Apache or GPL'd code. Of the 68 apps with open source code 71%, or 48 in absolute terms, were in violation. I admit that it would have been clearer and more interesting to say that 7.6% of the apps they looked at were in violation. If they had a truly random sampling and that number held out, you'd be looking at more than 20,000 apps that are violating the Apache and GPL licenses.
I don't understand this complaint. I don't exactly spend hours and hours of time administering on my home computer, but everything I've ever needed to do was done with Windows-Key -> Type what I want -> Select from a very short list. Are you sure you're using the search features to their fullest? That is what Windows 7 is built off of at heart, as a general rule you shouldn't ever be browsing randomly through the administration tools to find what you're looking for.
There's a difference between being able to play a game and running the game on ultra high settings. My laptop can run any game on the market right now, but I wouldn't say it would be the most pleasant experience and it certainly wouldn't be at anything more than medium to medium-low settings. Some people like the new shiny that PC games offer. While I (and apparently you) don't think it's worth the extra money just to be able to run the latest Crisis expansion across three monitors with the graphics up to ultra-high, other people apparently disagree, and them being willing and able to pay the price improves innovation for everyone down the road, which is kind of a nice bonus.
Nearly every guided munition has weapon link radios which are accurate enough to be used for navigational purposes. As long as a certain number of nodes in the network know where they are the rest of the network can extrapolate off of them to get a decent fix. It isn't as accurate as GPS (since you can't put an atomic clock inside every missile and bomb) but it's accurate enough to get all but the most precise jobs done.
Which of course is the real thing here, this is, for all intents and purposes, a rocket that happens to fly horizontally, very, very close to the ground, that is using a few wheels for stability purposes. It's cool, but it would be cooler to me if the wheels were actually applying power to the road, instead of just being for stability.
I remember reading a while back about a college professor, back in the day when this kind of thing wouldn't get you fired and thrown in prison, had a man run into the crowded lecture hall (100+ students), scream something, shoot the professor (with blanks obviously) and then run out. He later asked each student to describe the man, what he had said, the reactions of the other students, etc only to receive wildly differing accounts of what happened.
Eye witnesses suck. They suck really, really bad. People don't understand just how badly because your own brain plays tricks on you; it fills in gaps, changes details, blocks other details, and is generally self verifying by nature. If you're attacked by someone and then go to the police lineup and pick out a guy that you think might have been the attacker, after a while all your memories will be carefully and expertly edited to include that mans face, it's just part of the way our brains work. And what's worse is that the more times you're asked to recall a memory the more said memory gets mucked up. It's most commonly pointed out with children; with the right line of questioning you can convince a little kid that their daycare provider performed satanic sexual rituals on them and the other children. You can do the same exact thing with adults, simply asking a question about a scene can plant ideas into the memory. Asking the same questions over and over again in different ways is practically guaranteed to do it.
It's simple really. If a serious threat of violence is made in an online forum, the police in the jurisdiction the threat is directed at go to a judge, fill out the paper work, and get a warrant. If someone is libeling you, you take the evidence, go to the judge, get a court order. It isn't as if this case is saying that anyone can make a request to get IP addresses of anonymous posters, it would still require a court order or warrant to get that information.
The numbers I have read indicate that more people will die of backscatter induced cancers each year than would die from a mid-scale Project Orion style single-stage-to-orbit launch. Now, which of those two things (scanning random people boarding airplanes vs getting multiple megatons of material into orbit) has a bigger benefit to humanity?
Wasn't there some research a while back about training mice to sniff out explosives? I'm guessing it never went anywhere because people don't like the idea of a swarm of mice crawling over their luggage every time they fly.
Before self-esteem we had this thing called self-respect. The difference is that you have to earn respect, even if the person you're respecting is you. This was too hard for many people to understand and instead we moved to a system where everyone is expected to feel good about themselves regardless of whether or not they have anything to feel good about. Of course, this lowers self-expectations for those few who embrace it but more importantly it makes people who don't or can't embrace it feel like crap ("why am I the only one who isn't happy with who they are?").
Actually, it would seem you fail English via trying to apply mathematical rules to it.
The phrases 'times less than', 'times smaller', 'times fewer' have been in use in the English language for hundreds of years. Swift, Newton, Herschel, Boyle, and Locke all used those phrases at one point or another in their works. Now, generally speaking an argument from authority is not a good argument, but when you're talking about language which is by definition defined by the way it's used I think it is a sound one here. Those examples of usage are from hundreds of years ago, by some of the most educated, intelligent people of their times, I think it is safe to say the phrases were in standard usage then as they are now.
Obviously you can argue that logically or mathematically the phrasing doesn't make sense. The thing about language is that is is neither mathematical nor logical.
It's the difference between going to court because you mistakenly believed the other guy is infringing and going to court knowing full well that the other guy isn't infringing. The first is bullying and unethical, but legal; the same can't be said for the second.
Except that their mind sharing worked basically via magic. No detectable emissions, jamming, blocking, or interception possible. Of course, in universe... well, let's just say that if you combine in equal parts elements of sci-fi, historical fiction, and zombie apocalypse pretty much anything becomes explainable in universe.
No one pays for simple apps. At least no one with any intelligence levels to speak of. Searching the marketplace for 'egg timer' returns dozens of free timer applications. I'm perfectly willing to admit that not having a simple timer as one of the basic apps that come with the phone seems like an oversight, but it's one that, thanks to the ability to download and instal new (and generally free) software, is easily remedied.
I'm confused why you would want to write code, edit office documents, or compile a kernel on your phone but if you insist on being able to do those things there are all kinds of apps available. DocumentsToGo lets you view, edit, and create documents right on your phone for $15, appears to have good reviews, and was found with 10s of searching the marketplace. Touchqode similarly lets you view, edit, and compile code (Java, c++, Ruby, PHP, etc) and is even free or if you want a full experience you can unlock root and simply use VI or Emacs. Why on earth you'd want to do those things with a tiny screen and touch keyboard is beyond me but they are there. I'd be shocked if there aren't apps to transcode video as well, but I think I've made my point.
It's been proven that all NP problems are actually the same problem. That is, it is possible to transform any NP problem into any other NP problem in polynomial time. So, if you come up with an algorithm that can solve the 3-SAT problem in poly time, it is relatively easy to come up with a polynomial time algorithm to turn the traveling salesman problem into a 3-SAT problem.
Moved into our place almost 4 years ago and started replacing incandescents with CFLs as they went out and haven't replaced a single CFL so far, including ones that I replaced the week we moved in and others that are in the unheated and uncooled garage (in the upper midwest). But of course, we can go anecdote to anecdote all day and not get anywhere, it's the bigger picture that matters. I suspect for the average consumer they are a net win cost wise, otherwise why would 71% of households be buying them?
So, what's the ratio of criminals to honest ads? Craigslist claims 80 million classifieds are placed each month, that means that the odds of any one ad being linked to a crime is an amazing 1:2900000. Won't someone close down this cesspool of crime!? Granted, there's plenty of illegal stuff going on in craigslist ads; prostitution, drug selling, etc. I would imagine that is the odds of accidentally becoming the victim crime rather than participating in it.
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Because "Oh, those lines are just for the entertainment system, just synch them down tight so we can move on to overhauling the engines"
So... how is that different from now? Patent trolls trample over prior art with the system as it is today, the change to first to file doesn't change that in the slightest. All it does is reduce the costs associated with a review if two similar applications are received at nearly the same time. Incidentally, this is exactly how most of the Western world's patent systems work, and they have no more, and often quite less, trouble with patent trolls than the US does.
I wouldn't want my games up in Intel's cloud somewhere where I don't have any control and where I have to rely on my ISP to provide good latency. But it might be interesting to me to have a single powerful home server and then a couple laptops and a couple tablets that are basically IO devices and little else. Granted, you couldn't have everyone doing demanding, graphically intense games at all times, but a reasonably powerful desktop server should be more than capable of rendering 2x1080p laptop screens and 2x720p tablet screens, which is all most people have these days anyway (damn HDTV to hell for making people think 1080p is 'high resolution' for a PC monitor!). Of course, I'm not sure a wireless N network would keep up with the bandwidth requirements, but then you'd have the same exact problem (only much worse) trying to put those services on Intel servers in a datacenter somewhere.
Occasionally someone at my place of business somehow manages to send an email out to everyone in the department, or division, or even the whole company. Even on modern hardware the network will struggle if you send an email out to several hundreds or even thousands of recipients. But that wouldn't be so bad, what really finishes off the network are the several dozen people who feel the need to Reply All just to say "please remove me from this email last". Of course, after a dozen or so of those go out, you end up with two or three people sending a Reply All just to say "please stop sending your removal requests Reply All" The last one went out to 500 employees and I ended up with 40+ copies of the email in my inbox because of people being absolutely stupid.
Of the 635 apps that they looked at, they confidently identified 68 as having Apache or GPL'd code. Of the 68 apps with open source code 71%, or 48 in absolute terms, were in violation. I admit that it would have been clearer and more interesting to say that 7.6% of the apps they looked at were in violation. If they had a truly random sampling and that number held out, you'd be looking at more than 20,000 apps that are violating the Apache and GPL licenses.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/engineered.organs/index.html
I don't understand this complaint. I don't exactly spend hours and hours of time administering on my home computer, but everything I've ever needed to do was done with Windows-Key -> Type what I want -> Select from a very short list. Are you sure you're using the search features to their fullest? That is what Windows 7 is built off of at heart, as a general rule you shouldn't ever be browsing randomly through the administration tools to find what you're looking for.
There's a difference between being able to play a game and running the game on ultra high settings. My laptop can run any game on the market right now, but I wouldn't say it would be the most pleasant experience and it certainly wouldn't be at anything more than medium to medium-low settings. Some people like the new shiny that PC games offer. While I (and apparently you) don't think it's worth the extra money just to be able to run the latest Crisis expansion across three monitors with the graphics up to ultra-high, other people apparently disagree, and them being willing and able to pay the price improves innovation for everyone down the road, which is kind of a nice bonus.
Nearly every guided munition has weapon link radios which are accurate enough to be used for navigational purposes. As long as a certain number of nodes in the network know where they are the rest of the network can extrapolate off of them to get a decent fix. It isn't as accurate as GPS (since you can't put an atomic clock inside every missile and bomb) but it's accurate enough to get all but the most precise jobs done.
Which of course is the real thing here, this is, for all intents and purposes, a rocket that happens to fly horizontally, very, very close to the ground, that is using a few wheels for stability purposes. It's cool, but it would be cooler to me if the wheels were actually applying power to the road, instead of just being for stability.
I remember reading a while back about a college professor, back in the day when this kind of thing wouldn't get you fired and thrown in prison, had a man run into the crowded lecture hall (100+ students), scream something, shoot the professor (with blanks obviously) and then run out. He later asked each student to describe the man, what he had said, the reactions of the other students, etc only to receive wildly differing accounts of what happened.
Eye witnesses suck. They suck really, really bad. People don't understand just how badly because your own brain plays tricks on you; it fills in gaps, changes details, blocks other details, and is generally self verifying by nature. If you're attacked by someone and then go to the police lineup and pick out a guy that you think might have been the attacker, after a while all your memories will be carefully and expertly edited to include that mans face, it's just part of the way our brains work. And what's worse is that the more times you're asked to recall a memory the more said memory gets mucked up. It's most commonly pointed out with children; with the right line of questioning you can convince a little kid that their daycare provider performed satanic sexual rituals on them and the other children. You can do the same exact thing with adults, simply asking a question about a scene can plant ideas into the memory. Asking the same questions over and over again in different ways is practically guaranteed to do it.
The supreme court disagrees.
It's simple really. If a serious threat of violence is made in an online forum, the police in the jurisdiction the threat is directed at go to a judge, fill out the paper work, and get a warrant. If someone is libeling you, you take the evidence, go to the judge, get a court order. It isn't as if this case is saying that anyone can make a request to get IP addresses of anonymous posters, it would still require a court order or warrant to get that information.
An allusion to what?
The numbers I have read indicate that more people will die of backscatter induced cancers each year than would die from a mid-scale Project Orion style single-stage-to-orbit launch. Now, which of those two things (scanning random people boarding airplanes vs getting multiple megatons of material into orbit) has a bigger benefit to humanity?
Wasn't there some research a while back about training mice to sniff out explosives? I'm guessing it never went anywhere because people don't like the idea of a swarm of mice crawling over their luggage every time they fly.
Before self-esteem we had this thing called self-respect. The difference is that you have to earn respect, even if the person you're respecting is you. This was too hard for many people to understand and instead we moved to a system where everyone is expected to feel good about themselves regardless of whether or not they have anything to feel good about. Of course, this lowers self-expectations for those few who embrace it but more importantly it makes people who don't or can't embrace it feel like crap ("why am I the only one who isn't happy with who they are?").
Actually, it would seem you fail English via trying to apply mathematical rules to it.
The phrases 'times less than', 'times smaller', 'times fewer' have been in use in the English language for hundreds of years. Swift, Newton, Herschel, Boyle, and Locke all used those phrases at one point or another in their works. Now, generally speaking an argument from authority is not a good argument, but when you're talking about language which is by definition defined by the way it's used I think it is a sound one here. Those examples of usage are from hundreds of years ago, by some of the most educated, intelligent people of their times, I think it is safe to say the phrases were in standard usage then as they are now.
Obviously you can argue that logically or mathematically the phrasing doesn't make sense. The thing about language is that is is neither mathematical nor logical.
It's the difference between going to court because you mistakenly believed the other guy is infringing and going to court knowing full well that the other guy isn't infringing. The first is bullying and unethical, but legal; the same can't be said for the second.
Except that their mind sharing worked basically via magic. No detectable emissions, jamming, blocking, or interception possible. Of course, in universe... well, let's just say that if you combine in equal parts elements of sci-fi, historical fiction, and zombie apocalypse pretty much anything becomes explainable in universe.
Did you miss the part where I pointed you to software that allowed you to do these things on your phone?
No one pays for simple apps. At least no one with any intelligence levels to speak of. Searching the marketplace for 'egg timer' returns dozens of free timer applications. I'm perfectly willing to admit that not having a simple timer as one of the basic apps that come with the phone seems like an oversight, but it's one that, thanks to the ability to download and instal new (and generally free) software, is easily remedied.
I'm confused why you would want to write code, edit office documents, or compile a kernel on your phone but if you insist on being able to do those things there are all kinds of apps available. DocumentsToGo lets you view, edit, and create documents right on your phone for $15, appears to have good reviews, and was found with 10s of searching the marketplace. Touchqode similarly lets you view, edit, and compile code (Java, c++, Ruby, PHP, etc) and is even free or if you want a full experience you can unlock root and simply use VI or Emacs. Why on earth you'd want to do those things with a tiny screen and touch keyboard is beyond me but they are there. I'd be shocked if there aren't apps to transcode video as well, but I think I've made my point.
Not that hard, just need the right prefixes and it's not even that bad to deal with.
For instance, I drove down the freeway at 3.65 picoparsecs per hour. Even an easy, if rough, conversion: MPH / ~20 == pParsecs / hour
It's been proven that all NP problems are actually the same problem. That is, it is possible to transform any NP problem into any other NP problem in polynomial time. So, if you come up with an algorithm that can solve the 3-SAT problem in poly time, it is relatively easy to come up with a polynomial time algorithm to turn the traveling salesman problem into a 3-SAT problem.
Moved into our place almost 4 years ago and started replacing incandescents with CFLs as they went out and haven't replaced a single CFL so far, including ones that I replaced the week we moved in and others that are in the unheated and uncooled garage (in the upper midwest). But of course, we can go anecdote to anecdote all day and not get anywhere, it's the bigger picture that matters. I suspect for the average consumer they are a net win cost wise, otherwise why would 71% of households be buying them?
So, what's the ratio of criminals to honest ads? Craigslist claims 80 million classifieds are placed each month, that means that the odds of any one ad being linked to a crime is an amazing 1:2900000. Won't someone close down this cesspool of crime!? Granted, there's plenty of illegal stuff going on in craigslist ads; prostitution, drug selling, etc. I would imagine that is the odds of accidentally becoming the victim crime rather than participating in it.