and if you had a wheel that didn't MOVE and wasn't transferring ANY rotational motion (it's like those touchpads on laptops and you move your finger around it in a circular fashion and...) then it WOULD be unique AND patentable. it's a 'Touch Wheel' not a 'Scroll Wheel'
second, the way it does convert your finger motion into actually navigating the menus IS also unique. if i have a large list and circle the touch wheel slowly, it steps through them. if i circle more quickly, it moves through the list more quickly. however, it's not a linear relationship, it is related to the number of items in the list and the speed you circle the pad (and not linearly). scroll wheels on my mouse and any mouse i've ever used have never acted this way, one click is always 3 lines (or something similar)
i'm a little confused. i went to creative's site, looked at the jukebox 3 and the zen mp3 players and i am utterly at a loss as to where any of the creative players have a scroll wheel along the lines of the iPod's peizo-electric scroll wheel. there certainly wasn't prior art on this type of 'wheel' in the mp3 player market when apple came out with it and it's this same p-e scroll wheel that the Dcube has copied and that apple (presumably) has patented. it's not any old wheel that turns.
Tech jobs are different: they require years of education to become qualified for.
First, if you don't believe that tech jobs (especially programming jobs) are becoming commoditized, please look at the IDE you're using, where it came from, and where the logical future is. IDEs, application servers, workflow products, etc. are all becoming more automated and more intelligent on their own. Just like many blue-collar jobs have gone over the last 50 years. There will still be some need for "experts" to perform maintenance/specialized work but eventually button pushing drones will be able to write the programs you may (and I, currently,) write.
Second, nationalist job protectionism seems to assume a fixed supply of jobs (if someone else does my job, i won't have one to do anymore). This may be true for a specific type of job but, in most cases, the "years of education" should allow you to be a bit more adaptable as well as make you overqualified for the commoditized version of your job.
Third, this feeds, in my mind, into a personal, instinctual quest for efficiency. If you want it from the corporate perspective - call it 'cheaper' - but that's what it is only because the world is not even in terms of wealth levels (if you expect these to even out while nations are not trading freely in both goods and jobs, i think you're crazy.). Get the work/goods where it's most efficient. Maybe from the corporate perspective my job is cheaper in India and even though it takes longer to be done over there, they net more. Once (and clearly this could be a long time) wage levels even out, my job could come back to me if it's really more efficiently performed by me. Maybe it goes to yet another country where the labor is cheap. Who knows? In the meantime, it is my job to adapt. Find a different job (again, this isn't an issue unless you believe the number and types of available jobs are fixed - which I don't).
704x480 (480p) is a far cry from significantly better HD resolutions of 1280x720 (720p) and 1920x1080 (1080i). while the article doesn't say if it displays the images in full hd, the roku web page says it supports all hd formats (i.e. up to 1080i). this is a huge difference (~7 times the resoultion of the stills you can burn onto that VCD) especially on a 50+ inch TV.
i haven't paid attention to the graphics card market for a while, but i think that the ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro (or whatever the latest is) is a lot closer to where the Xbox is going that Nvidia's latest (while 3rd parties offer nvidia boards with special features, i don't know of any that have the total functionality of the ATI -- like i said though, i don't follow these closely anymore). anyway, having HD output, the DVR functionality, etc. altogether is where the xbox is going. as far as i know, ATI has gotten there first and gotten there best. drivers can be fixed easily (relatively) in comparison to technical/hardware production capabilities.
no, i'm offended that my seatmate thinks that the 5 minutes he's saved by calling at touchdown is more important than respecting the people around him and not disturbing them.
i've heard a very large number of these touchdown calls (i fly at least twice a week) and not a single one has yet been urgent enough to warrant the abuse of everyone in the vicinity.
open source is certainly one way to potentially increase code quality with respect to security. but there are others, including introducing a group within the company to audit exactly that.
there are obvious drawbacks to microsoft opening their source, including a large collapse of their main revenue streams and huge impact on their existence as a company. at least, as microsoft is structured now, opening their source is not a good business decision (no matter your feelings on microsoft as a company).
open source is not the software savior it's often made out to be. all software will not be open source. ever. demanding that every software company do just that is both unreasonable and generally unhelpful. we should be demanding that software companies produce more secure, stable, and user-centered software. however each company chooses to do that shouldn't matter, as long as that end goal is reached.
but also very unlikely to be true. at that altitude there are very few ways to knock down something not to mention that it's moving at 12,000 mph. Sure it could have been sabotage before the shuttle took off, but it would be tough to get that to cause it to smoke on reentry rather than on takeoff. And FNC as your news source? That's the problem with the USA.
well, i believe visualage for java had java hot code replace before jbuilder and (ever so loosely of course) vaj was the precursor to eclipse (ok, they're completely different apps, but from a ibm product standpoint...anyway i'll shut up now).
however, eclipse didn't have hot code replace until 2.0 and it only has it for 1.4 jvms as it's theoretically trying to go with standards rather than do some fancy trickery.
there's already a dvi input on the back of my mitsubishi hdtv (ws-55111 or something like that) if that's what you're getting at. it's unfortunately limited to 640x480 @ 60Hz and i don't think i'll ever use it (though there are some interesting tinkering possibilities).
i would expect that in the future, more tvs will have them and they'll probably even support better resolutions. but if you want to send me a nice signal (from a console), i'd much prefer you just give me a regular hdtv signal.
i think that would be much nicer/convenient for many reasons -- not the least of which that it would be easier if my do-everything-console gave me the signal i want rather than my tv have to figure out a way to interpret the signal the console throws at me.
it's a good thing you're not a lawyer. perjury is lying under oath. which, in most cases mentioned here, has not been close to committed. and you normally can't be sued for money for perjury. you can be prosecuted criminally for it though.
what fatwallet seems to be suing over is that walmart caused fatwallet to lose money over a claim that was presumably know to be vacuous. whether that will be easy money or not has yet to be seen.
wake up and smell the lack of an argument. if you want to cite it why, on earth, MUST you have an electronic copy? in my day bibliographies even covered magazines.
you are completely correct. that is a VERY clear explanation of speedstep. which is why it amazes me that you think it applies to desktop CPUs which is what both the submitter and the article are taking issue with. speedstep is for mobile CPUs only. a little bit of research into page seven (or 0x7 for that stupid hex guy) would save us all some aggravation.
i doubt it will matter at all. the average user doesn't see any problem with security through obscurity. in fact, they rely on it specifically as most have easily crackable passwords. more to the point, "normal people" don't care if an operating is secure -- they care if it's secure enough. and unfortunately, you can get that with security through obscurity.
I'm not sure why he'd be asking about how to design a _good_ complex GUI
I don't think he's asking this either though. He seems to be asking how to properly stucture your internal data and the appropriate design patterns to use to cleanly access this to make it easy to fit to a complex GUI, a GUI where the same data is viewed from several different perspectives and needs to 'look' and 'act' different depending on how it's being viewed.
He listed autocad (and others) only as examples of complex GUIs with no judgement on whether it's good or bad. And he's not looking for good GUIs or bad GUIs or how to make either. He's looking for how to go about connecting the GUI to the underlying data.
while i don't disagree, note that the article does point out that one of the reasons that they wanted it removed was not just that it talked about purpoted terrorists, but that they (the officials) said it was not objective and was intended to garner sympathy for their cause. the magazines, newspapers, articles you mention for example are (presumably for the most part) "unbiased" (yeah, U.S. media blah, blah, blah) accounts.
i completely disagree with any assertion that people who buy artists in the top 40 don't care about "good music" or buy it because they believe they should like it (unless it's U2, which i'm pretty sure fits those categories...). people buy music because they like it. whether there's possibly "better" music out there that they haven't heard (and might like more if they did) is not the point. just because a person does not make a special effort to find music other than what's on the radio does not make them "mindless."
good music is COMPLETELY dependent upon the person listening. i'm relatively confident that my music collection and your music collection have less than 10 cds (or equivalent if you don't buy cds) in common. that means nothing about the quality of either of our music collections. if you think it does, then clearly the 10 cds we both have should be the "best music" between the two of us and, carrying this to it's logical conclusion, the britney spears, creeds, and limp bizkits of the world is truly great music.
good music means one thing and one thing only: that the person listening to it can derive some enjoyment/entertainment value from listening to it. this is (thankfully) different for all of us.
grecian == greek though typically is used to describe a person who lives in greece rather than other things related to greece (though it certainly can be)
you must also realize that that's from an adobe press release. in other words, you probably shouldn't it to say anything that might indicate what they did was wrong. it will be painted in the best, and most innocent, light possible.
stop reading the wheel of time. there are no warders. you cannot channel -- and niether can anyone else. the dark one and the creator are not at war (ok, they might be). there is no dragon reborn.
a proper environmentally friendly house would have some sort of alternate energy power source (solar, wind, etc.) so as to minimize it's electricity usage from power companies. i'd assume it used some of that power (possibly from some storage device/generator)
And they don't really evolve from the previous versions, except in terms of graphics/sound/physics.
and yet you've advocated tomb raider 1-6? that tomb raider 1-6 were just nominated as an original game (maybe 1 could be counted)? or is this as games that aren't of the destroy everything that moves? huh? all ditto for descent 1-3 (again, maybe 1)? and resident evil? well, i didn't play the game, but i saw the movie -- it was along the lines of "kill everything that moves and looks mean." close enough.
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and if you had a wheel that didn't MOVE and wasn't transferring ANY rotational motion (it's like those touchpads on laptops and you move your finger around it in a circular fashion and...) then it WOULD be unique AND patentable. it's a 'Touch Wheel' not a 'Scroll Wheel'
second, the way it does convert your finger motion into actually navigating the menus IS also unique. if i have a large list and circle the touch wheel slowly, it steps through them. if i circle more quickly, it moves through the list more quickly. however, it's not a linear relationship, it is related to the number of items in the list and the speed you circle the pad (and not linearly). scroll wheels on my mouse and any mouse i've ever used have never acted this way, one click is always 3 lines (or something similar)
i'm a little confused. i went to creative's site, looked at the jukebox 3 and the zen mp3 players and i am utterly at a loss as to where any of the creative players have a scroll wheel along the lines of the iPod's peizo-electric scroll wheel. there certainly wasn't prior art on this type of 'wheel' in the mp3 player market when apple came out with it and it's this same p-e scroll wheel that the Dcube has copied and that apple (presumably) has patented. it's not any old wheel that turns.
'incredibly interesting' and wrong. the ipod supports: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF (Mac only) and WAV
see iPod specs
First, if you don't believe that tech jobs (especially programming jobs) are becoming commoditized, please look at the IDE you're using, where it came from, and where the logical future is. IDEs, application servers, workflow products, etc. are all becoming more automated and more intelligent on their own. Just like many blue-collar jobs have gone over the last 50 years. There will still be some need for "experts" to perform maintenance/specialized work but eventually button pushing drones will be able to write the programs you may (and I, currently,) write.
Second, nationalist job protectionism seems to assume a fixed supply of jobs (if someone else does my job, i won't have one to do anymore). This may be true for a specific type of job but, in most cases, the "years of education" should allow you to be a bit more adaptable as well as make you overqualified for the commoditized version of your job.
Third, this feeds, in my mind, into a personal, instinctual quest for efficiency. If you want it from the corporate perspective - call it 'cheaper' - but that's what it is only because the world is not even in terms of wealth levels (if you expect these to even out while nations are not trading freely in both goods and jobs, i think you're crazy.). Get the work/goods where it's most efficient. Maybe from the corporate perspective my job is cheaper in India and even though it takes longer to be done over there, they net more. Once (and clearly this could be a long time) wage levels even out, my job could come back to me if it's really more efficiently performed by me. Maybe it goes to yet another country where the labor is cheap. Who knows? In the meantime, it is my job to adapt. Find a different job (again, this isn't an issue unless you believe the number and types of available jobs are fixed - which I don't).
on the new ipod.
704x480 (480p) is a far cry from significantly better HD resolutions of 1280x720 (720p) and 1920x1080 (1080i). while the article doesn't say if it displays the images in full hd, the roku web page says it supports all hd formats (i.e. up to 1080i). this is a huge difference (~7 times the resoultion of the stills you can burn onto that VCD) especially on a 50+ inch TV.
i haven't paid attention to the graphics card market for a while, but i think that the ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro (or whatever the latest is) is a lot closer to where the Xbox is going that Nvidia's latest (while 3rd parties offer nvidia boards with special features, i don't know of any that have the total functionality of the ATI -- like i said though, i don't follow these closely anymore). anyway, having HD output, the DVR functionality, etc. altogether is where the xbox is going. as far as i know, ATI has gotten there first and gotten there best. drivers can be fixed easily (relatively) in comparison to technical/hardware production capabilities.
no, i'm offended that my seatmate thinks that the 5 minutes he's saved by calling at touchdown is more important than respecting the people around him and not disturbing them.
i've heard a very large number of these touchdown calls (i fly at least twice a week) and not a single one has yet been urgent enough to warrant the abuse of everyone in the vicinity.
open source is certainly one way to potentially increase code quality with respect to security. but there are others, including introducing a group within the company to audit exactly that.
there are obvious drawbacks to microsoft opening their source, including a large collapse of their main revenue streams and huge impact on their existence as a company. at least, as microsoft is structured now, opening their source is not a good business decision (no matter your feelings on microsoft as a company).
open source is not the software savior it's often made out to be. all software will not be open source. ever. demanding that every software company do just that is both unreasonable and generally unhelpful. we should be demanding that software companies produce more secure, stable, and user-centered software. however each company chooses to do that shouldn't matter, as long as that end goal is reached.
but also very unlikely to be true. at that altitude there are very few ways to knock down something not to mention that it's moving at 12,000 mph. Sure it could have been sabotage before the shuttle took off, but it would be tough to get that to cause it to smoke on reentry rather than on takeoff. And FNC as your news source? That's the problem with the USA.
well, i believe visualage for java had java hot code replace before jbuilder and (ever so loosely of course) vaj was the precursor to eclipse (ok, they're completely different apps, but from a ibm product standpoint...anyway i'll shut up now).
however, eclipse didn't have hot code replace until 2.0 and it only has it for 1.4 jvms as it's theoretically trying to go with standards rather than do some fancy trickery.
there's already a dvi input on the back of my mitsubishi hdtv (ws-55111 or something like that) if that's what you're getting at. it's unfortunately limited to 640x480 @ 60Hz and i don't think i'll ever use it (though there are some interesting tinkering possibilities).
i would expect that in the future, more tvs will have them and they'll probably even support better resolutions. but if you want to send me a nice signal (from a console), i'd much prefer you just give me a regular hdtv signal.
i think that would be much nicer/convenient for many reasons -- not the least of which that it would be easier if my do-everything-console gave me the signal i want rather than my tv have to figure out a way to interpret the signal the console throws at me.
it's a good thing you're not a lawyer. perjury is lying under oath. which, in most cases mentioned here, has not been close to committed. and you normally can't be sued for money for perjury. you can be prosecuted criminally for it though.
what fatwallet seems to be suing over is that walmart caused fatwallet to lose money over a claim that was presumably know to be vacuous. whether that will be easy money or not has yet to be seen.
wake up and smell the lack of an argument. if you want to cite it why, on earth, MUST you have an electronic copy? in my day bibliographies even covered magazines.
you are completely correct. that is a VERY clear explanation of speedstep. which is why it amazes me that you think it applies to desktop CPUs which is what both the submitter and the article are taking issue with. speedstep is for mobile CPUs only. a little bit of research into page seven (or 0x7 for that stupid hex guy) would save us all some aggravation.
i doubt it will matter at all. the average user doesn't see any problem with security through obscurity. in fact, they rely on it specifically as most have easily crackable passwords. more to the point, "normal people" don't care if an operating is secure -- they care if it's secure enough. and unfortunately, you can get that with security through obscurity.
I don't think he's asking this either though. He seems to be asking how to properly stucture your internal data and the appropriate design patterns to use to cleanly access this to make it easy to fit to a complex GUI, a GUI where the same data is viewed from several different perspectives and needs to 'look' and 'act' different depending on how it's being viewed.
He listed autocad (and others) only as examples of complex GUIs with no judgement on whether it's good or bad. And he's not looking for good GUIs or bad GUIs or how to make either. He's looking for how to go about connecting the GUI to the underlying data.
or that's how it reads in braille.
while i don't disagree, note that the article does point out that one of the reasons that they wanted it removed was not just that it talked about purpoted terrorists, but that they (the officials) said it was not objective and was intended to garner sympathy for their cause. the magazines, newspapers, articles you mention for example are (presumably for the most part) "unbiased" (yeah, U.S. media blah, blah, blah) accounts.
i completely disagree with any assertion that people who buy artists in the top 40 don't care about "good music" or buy it because they believe they should like it (unless it's U2, which i'm pretty sure fits those categories...). people buy music because they like it. whether there's possibly "better" music out there that they haven't heard (and might like more if they did) is not the point. just because a person does not make a special effort to find music other than what's on the radio does not make them "mindless."
good music is COMPLETELY dependent upon the person listening. i'm relatively confident that my music collection and your music collection have less than 10 cds (or equivalent if you don't buy cds) in common. that means nothing about the quality of either of our music collections. if you think it does, then clearly the 10 cds we both have should be the "best music" between the two of us and, carrying this to it's logical conclusion, the britney spears, creeds, and limp bizkits of the world is truly great music.
good music means one thing and one thing only: that the person listening to it can derive some enjoyment/entertainment value from listening to it. this is (thankfully) different for all of us.
grecian == greek though typically is used to describe a person who lives in greece rather than other things related to greece (though it certainly can be)
isn't it just as big of a mistake to then call them "Ogg Vorbis players."
you must also realize that that's from an adobe press release. in other words, you probably shouldn't it to say anything that might indicate what they did was wrong. it will be painted in the best, and most innocent, light possible.
stop reading the wheel of time. there are no warders. you cannot channel -- and niether can anyone else. the dark one and the creator are not at war (ok, they might be). there is no dragon reborn.
a proper environmentally friendly house would have some sort of alternate energy power source (solar, wind, etc.) so as to minimize it's electricity usage from power companies. i'd assume it used some of that power (possibly from some storage device/generator)
and yet you've advocated tomb raider 1-6? that tomb raider 1-6 were just nominated as an original game (maybe 1 could be counted)? or is this as games that aren't of the destroy everything that moves? huh? all ditto for descent 1-3 (again, maybe 1)? and resident evil? well, i didn't play the game, but i saw the movie -- it was along the lines of "kill everything that moves and looks mean." close enough.