It just takes one anal retentive person to rip the commercials and then make it available for download. The fear of DIGITALLY PERFECT HD copies will keep it limited to a crappy flash version until they can protect against that.
Joe here had the first real comment worth reading (so far). You need to do a search, and the USPTO has a free search on their website that you can search both applications and granted patents. there are also databases like delphion, and perhaps you can find a university library with access to a service like that.
when reading prior art patents, you need to compare what you do to the claims of the patent, ignore the abstract and all of the text before it, just read the claims, and check if that describes your invention (or parts of it).
After an MS in Electrical Engineering (with a 3.9 GPA), I've finally figured out this major was not for me.
Me too. It was the perfect thing for me to study, and I enjoyed every bit of it. The jobs you tend to get offered with an MSEE are cubicle design engineering jobs - and you will often see that cubicle for 50-60 hours a week. Did not appeal.
I went into new business development, which requires a thorough understanding of technology and a working knowledge of business, and I love my job.
It bothers me that everyone seems to think that journalism is the answer - there is a lot of bad journalism out there.
RS? Poorly coined phrase. I think the original submitter meant Network Video Recorder (NVR). IPTV as an industry is growing, then everything will be on demand. Why would you bother recording shows (and all of the scheduling hassle that comes with it) when you can just watch whatever you want whenever you want? (Yeah, commercials, but free on demand is worth something!) That convenience, done right, will really replace a DVR, and this service is an early-beta-idea-version and probably is a bit ahead of its time.
I wonder if we went to the same school? I had almost the exact same experience/impression from my undergrad program.
I agree that the 4 year technical degree is starting to become a bit vocational, and that's why I went to graduate school. Getting in to a top graduate program was the reward for all of the research and extra classes.
However, when looking for a job after graduate school (where my GPA sucked because I took what I was interested in, rather than what would get me a good GPA) the school discouraged putting a GPA on a resume. It was a great litmus test for me when an employer asked for a GPA anyway, and didn't ask any technical questions - I immediately knew that HR was lazy, and that leads to all sorts of other problems (B players hire C players and so on...).
I had a good GPA as an Undergrad in Electrical Engineering - 3.8 or so. This got me a lot of interviews, and I went to almost all of them. At least 20% of those interviews were obtained on my GPA alone, due to what I refer to as "The Lazy Recruiter Syndrome." The best example I have is a recruiter who did not know what type of engineer I was, and was asking me lots of specific questions from another unrelated field. When I mentioned to him what my major was, he got a little flustered, realizing that I knew he didn't read my resume at all, and said "let me tell you about our technology management program..." I said "No Thanks" and got up and walked out of the interview room.
A large publicly traded consulting firm had a very similar tactic, just going after anyone in sciences with a high GPA. The MIS (management of info systems) grads were drooling for these jobs, and the EE/CS guys were pretty bored.
Your 6 remake will probably be on the GBA soon enough.
They re-released Breath of Fire I and II Final Fantasy I and II Final Fantasy IV Final Fantasy III on the DS
Final Fantasy VI on GBA is mentioned on several gaming sites but I bet it will be out next year about this time (last year they re-released I and II, this year IV, and next year it will be III an VI if current trends hold).
My Speculation for Re-releases: Secret of Mana with Wireless Support on the DS/GBA Chrono Trigger
There were many "The engineers did it because it was cool and no one would buy it" comments. This might be the case, but Sun does have a marketing dept - and I'm sure that at least someone knew about it and did their homework.
That said, it is obvious someone in the marketing dept didn't get it right, but at some point it comes down to luck.
They are trying a new product in a new market space and it might fail - due to any number of reasons. The two that come to mind are: The customers don't know they need it yet (as parent said - ahead of their time), or that a competitor does it cheaper or better. This happens all the time to small startups, divisions within companies get axed, etc.
"More companies fail from a lack of customers, rather than a lack of product" (I'm not saying Sun is going to fail, but this division might get axed.)
Welcome to the business world, it's vicious, yet rewarding if you do it right ('Google', 'Ipod' division).
While the job the FCC has been doing is certainly debatable (although not necessarily debate worthy), the fact that they do provide some form of regulation is good. Even if everyone can adapt their radio to work at other frequencies:
A. we are a long way from having adaptive radios in everything, it would cost sooo much to update all radios, even over the next 20 years - it wouldn't quite be as bad as the U.S. converting to metric, but someone has not thought this through entirely. Think the U.S. is going to go metric in the next 20 years? I don't.
B. there is no enforcement - people can create malicious noise and you have no legal (non-vigilante) way to get them to stop.
Vernacular is: "the vulgar tongue of the masses" "the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)" (Source: "define:vernacular" on Google)
The parent here is partially correct. Now that we have boards of English professors to sit around and decide what to call something, the official language will only change if an expression or word can presumably be deemed more correct or better than another.
The vernacular language (what people actually say) does not work that way, and most of us do use some form of it, Ebonics is an extreme example of vernacular, as is whatever the hell Brad Pitt talks like in the film "Snatch."
My point is that the parent is correct when considering the high form of a language, and not at all correct when considering the vernacular. Chillax, awesometastic, and such phrases are happening, and while they are not correct in English, they do pass in and out of trends (daddy-o, far out, radical, gnarly, tubular, cowabunga - you don't hear these expressions so often anymore do you? = trends!)
"Should of" "alot", misuse of "They're, there, and their", "Your, you're, yore (just kidding, no one uses yore)" and "Two, too, and to" are much bigger problems, and these (in my humble opinion) do indicate a lack of linguistic intelligence and linguistic interest. The language could devolve this way (I'm sure it has in the past), but there are now too many people clinging to (or perhaps proudly bearing) degrees in English to let this happen at such a basic level.
One more thing, swearing is also an indicator of a limited vocabulary. I think this is especially true when people use swear words as an adjective - or for just about every other word.
To put the parent a little more politely, games are now having to compete on the experience they provide. For example, Grand Theft Auto 3-5 have a Story, Missions, Races, Hidden Packages, and special bonuses if you collect everything, ensuring that players go for the complete experience.
Nintendo creates some interesting extra features with their platform crossovers (Zelda that connects to the Gameboy).
New Updates to Old Games are going strong and inculding new features - Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls, for example has a bestiary and many new dungeons, with new items, dungeons and monsters, with a few nods at other characters that (most) Final Fantasy fans appreicate.
Encourage multiple stmuli for their little developing brains. Read to them when they are young. Take them on nature walks. Introduce them to musical instruments (violin) perhaps in a social setting (childrens choirs), take them to art museums, boat rides, swiming pools, walks in the neighborhood, the zoo, etc. If you speak another language, start teaching them while they are young. Enroll them in art, theater, dance, sports, and any other class they don't know anything about.
Pretty soon they will tell you what they are interested in, yet keep pushing them in many directions they will continue to discover things they like and develop many talents.
Point is, you only get one shot, so introduce your kids to everything you can. They will thank you for it later.
That's a clever take. It might be a trackball. That would certainly correlate better with media center than what I was thinking:
I thought it was like a floating compass or some such thing, for those people who move their hands (while holding the controller) when they play driving games. A form of accelerometer if you will.
I know that there are large puzzles of at least the 50 states, probably Europe and other regions exist.
The puzzles that I'm thinking of are large wooden cutouts of a state or region, and would be great for learning by touch the shapes of states/countries. If you glued them down near eache other, possibly a spatial relation between them could be formed as well.
We had one of these big floor puzzles in kindergarten. It was a riot!
...this was a statistic quoted to me by a guy who sold these for a living. I sat next to him on a plane back in January.
He sold gift cards to smaller companies, mom and pop stores (not Best Buy or Amazon type juggernauts), and used the main selling points that it was often instant revenue, and the 12% that was never used became pure profit for the company.
He also said that these things sold themselves. I guess he never tried to sell them in Delaware.
So the strait of Gibraltar and Cyprus are both right along a line between the african and eurasian plates. See it here.
Earthquakes and volcanos are quite common along the tectonic plate lines, and I speculate that either an earthquake or a volcano could cause the sinking of an Island or even a coast (California someday). That seems more reasonable to me than this Antarctic argument. I admit that Antarctica hasn't been explored as much, but I suspect that it was cold long before man.
Slashdot Mirror
MPLS/ST.Paul was number 2. It's cold there.
Atlanta was number 3. I've never been there, but I imagine it gets pretty hot and humid outside...
I think you're on to something.
It just takes one anal retentive person to rip the commercials and then make it available for download. The fear of DIGITALLY PERFECT HD copies will keep it limited to a crappy flash version until they can protect against that.
Joe here had the first real comment worth reading (so far). You need to do a search, and the USPTO has a free search on their website that you can search both applications and granted patents. there are also databases like delphion, and perhaps you can find a university library with access to a service like that.
when reading prior art patents, you need to compare what you do to the claims of the patent, ignore the abstract and all of the text before it, just read the claims, and check if that describes your invention (or parts of it).
Good luck!
After an MS in Electrical Engineering (with a 3.9 GPA), I've finally figured out this major was not for me.
Me too. It was the perfect thing for me to study, and I enjoyed every bit of it. The jobs you tend to get offered with an MSEE are cubicle design engineering jobs - and you will often see that cubicle for 50-60 hours a week. Did not appeal.
I went into new business development, which requires a thorough understanding of technology and a working knowledge of business, and I love my job.
It bothers me that everyone seems to think that journalism is the answer - there is a lot of bad journalism out there.
RS? Poorly coined phrase. I think the original submitter meant Network Video Recorder (NVR). IPTV as an industry is growing, then everything will be on demand. Why would you bother recording shows (and all of the scheduling hassle that comes with it) when you can just watch whatever you want whenever you want? (Yeah, commercials, but free on demand is worth something!) That convenience, done right, will really replace a DVR, and this service is an early-beta-idea-version and probably is a bit ahead of its time.
"This is a quantum leap in moving transparent electronics from the laboratory toward working commercial applications"
I hope the journalist just spiced up the quote - because most professors wouldn't be caught dead saying something like that.
I wonder if we went to the same school? I had almost the exact same experience/impression from my undergrad program.
I agree that the 4 year technical degree is starting to become a bit vocational, and that's why I went to graduate school. Getting in to a top graduate program was the reward for all of the research and extra classes.
However, when looking for a job after graduate school (where my GPA sucked because I took what I was interested in, rather than what would get me a good GPA) the school discouraged putting a GPA on a resume. It was a great litmus test for me when an employer asked for a GPA anyway, and didn't ask any technical questions - I immediately knew that HR was lazy, and that leads to all sorts of other problems (B players hire C players and so on...).
Also consider that the state taxes in CA are on the higher end, and when you're making more, you also pay more. Property Taxes through the roof!
Keep this in mind when asking for salary adjustments.
I knew this would fit in here somewhere...
I had a good GPA as an Undergrad in Electrical Engineering - 3.8 or so. This got me a lot of interviews, and I went to almost all of them. At least 20% of those interviews were obtained on my GPA alone, due to what I refer to as "The Lazy Recruiter Syndrome." The best example I have is a recruiter who did not know what type of engineer I was, and was asking me lots of specific questions from another unrelated field. When I mentioned to him what my major was, he got a little flustered, realizing that I knew he didn't read my resume at all, and said "let me tell you about our technology management program..." I said "No Thanks" and got up and walked out of the interview room.
A large publicly traded consulting firm had a very similar tactic, just going after anyone in sciences with a high GPA. The MIS (management of info systems) grads were drooling for these jobs, and the EE/CS guys were pretty bored.
Your 6 remake will probably be on the GBA soon enough.
They re-released
Breath of Fire I and II
Final Fantasy I and II
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy III on the DS
Final Fantasy VI on GBA is mentioned on several gaming sites but I bet it will be out next year about this time (last year they re-released I and II, this year IV, and next year it will be III an VI if current trends hold).
My Speculation for Re-releases:
Secret of Mana with Wireless Support on the DS/GBA
Chrono Trigger
Your vision sounds like a milder version of the Stanford prison experiment. You could really mess with some people's psychology.
There were many "The engineers did it because it was cool and no one would buy it" comments. This might be the case, but Sun does have a marketing dept - and I'm sure that at least someone knew about it and did their homework.
That said, it is obvious someone in the marketing dept didn't get it right, but at some point it comes down to luck.
They are trying a new product in a new market space and it might fail - due to any number of reasons. The two that come to mind are: The customers don't know they need it yet (as parent said - ahead of their time), or that a competitor does it cheaper or better. This happens all the time to small startups, divisions within companies get axed, etc.
"More companies fail from a lack of customers, rather than a lack of product"
(I'm not saying Sun is going to fail, but this division might get axed.)
Welcome to the business world, it's vicious, yet rewarding if you do it right ('Google', 'Ipod' division).
While the job the FCC has been doing is certainly debatable (although not necessarily debate worthy), the fact that they do provide some form of regulation is good. Even if everyone can adapt their radio to work at other frequencies:
A. we are a long way from having adaptive radios in everything, it would cost sooo much to update all radios, even over the next 20 years - it wouldn't quite be as bad as the U.S. converting to metric, but someone has not thought this through entirely. Think the U.S. is going to go metric in the next 20 years? I don't.
B. there is no enforcement - people can create malicious noise and you have no legal (non-vigilante) way to get them to stop.
Vernacular is:
"the vulgar tongue of the masses"
"the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)"
(Source: "define:vernacular" on Google)
The parent here is partially correct. Now that we have boards of English professors to sit around and decide what to call something, the official language will only change if an expression or word can presumably be deemed more correct or better than another.
The vernacular language (what people actually say) does not work that way, and most of us do use some form of it, Ebonics is an extreme example of vernacular, as is whatever the hell Brad Pitt talks like in the film "Snatch."
My point is that the parent is correct when considering the high form of a language, and not at all correct when considering the vernacular. Chillax, awesometastic, and such phrases are happening, and while they are not correct in English, they do pass in and out of trends (daddy-o, far out, radical, gnarly, tubular, cowabunga - you don't hear these expressions so often anymore do you? = trends!)
"Should of" "alot", misuse of "They're, there, and their", "Your, you're, yore (just kidding, no one uses yore)" and "Two, too, and to" are much bigger problems, and these (in my humble opinion) do indicate a lack of linguistic intelligence and linguistic interest. The language could devolve this way (I'm sure it has in the past), but there are now too many people clinging to (or perhaps proudly bearing) degrees in English to let this happen at such a basic level.
One more thing, swearing is also an indicator of a limited vocabulary. I think this is especially true when people use swear words as an adjective - or for just about every other word.
To put the parent a little more politely, games are now having to compete on the experience they provide. For example, Grand Theft Auto 3-5 have a Story, Missions, Races, Hidden Packages, and special bonuses if you collect everything, ensuring that players go for the complete experience.
Nintendo creates some interesting extra features with their platform crossovers (Zelda that connects to the Gameboy).
New Updates to Old Games are going strong and inculding new features - Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls, for example has a bestiary and many new dungeons, with new items, dungeons and monsters, with a few nods at other characters that (most) Final Fantasy fans appreicate.
Encourage multiple stmuli for their little developing brains. Read to them when they are young. Take them on nature walks. Introduce them to musical instruments (violin) perhaps in a social setting (childrens choirs), take them to art museums, boat rides, swiming pools, walks in the neighborhood, the zoo, etc. If you speak another language, start teaching them while they are young. Enroll them in art, theater, dance, sports, and any other class they don't know anything about.
Pretty soon they will tell you what they are interested in, yet keep pushing them in many directions they will continue to discover things they like and develop many talents.
Point is, you only get one shot, so introduce your kids to everything you can. They will thank you for it later.
I think I can hear that too, like when a TV is on (but muted) on the floor below me. Is it really 15 kHz? How do you know?
That's a clever take. It might be a trackball. That would certainly correlate better with media center than what I was thinking:
I thought it was like a floating compass or some such thing, for those people who move their hands (while holding the controller) when they play driving games. A form of accelerometer if you will.
I think your idea sounds more reasonable.
It's at the end of this large PDF.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/98-07.pdf
Jeremy Wariner recently won the 400m Track and Field gold in Athens:
http://www.jeremywariner.com/
The link is not clickable so we don't slashdot him.
A 'video' clip of a 400m race should take about 1 minute, and this guy has a bunch of them, of course he runs the quarter in well under a minute...
I know that there are large puzzles of at least the 50 states, probably Europe and other regions exist.
The puzzles that I'm thinking of are large wooden cutouts of a state or region, and would be great for learning by touch the shapes of states/countries. If you glued them down near eache other, possibly a spatial relation between them could be formed as well.
We had one of these big floor puzzles in kindergarten. It was a riot!
Actually that would be totally sweet, especially when they flip out and kill people!
VG and CE for nostalgia, maybe an old Nintendo Power or two...
I also read the economist in print, the onion in print, slashdot, wall street journal in print.
...this was a statistic quoted to me by a guy who sold these for a living. I sat next to him on a plane back in January.
He sold gift cards to smaller companies, mom and pop stores (not Best Buy or Amazon type juggernauts), and used the main selling points that it was often instant revenue, and the 12% that was never used became pure profit for the company.
He also said that these things sold themselves. I guess he never tried to sell them in Delaware.
So the strait of Gibraltar and Cyprus are both right along a line between the african and eurasian plates. See it here.
Earthquakes and volcanos are quite common along the tectonic plate lines, and I speculate that either an earthquake or a volcano could cause the sinking of an Island or even a coast (California someday). That seems more reasonable to me than this Antarctic argument. I admit that Antarctica hasn't been explored as much, but I suspect that it was cold long before man.