I already claimed a 1 to infinite recursion of the patent patenting patenting.... patent.
Sorry buddy.
I, for one, would love to see some transfinite ordinal numbers in spurious patent disputes! If they're not going to go away, at least make them entertaining.
I don't have a facebook account, so excuse my ignorance, but every time I read something like this I get confused:
Parker not only stopped mid-robbery to check his Facebook status
Shouldn't he know what his status is? I mean, he was the last one to change his status, right? Does facebook go around changing your status, and it's a game to log in and see what it got changed to?
Agreed. I misread it as "stopped mid-robbery to update his Facebook status". Hence, GP said what I was thinking!
The IBM test-tube quantum computer from a while back used the spins of several atoms in a specially-crafted molecule as qubits. This one is "an integrated waveguide silica-on-silicon chip that guides four single-photon qubits through the computation". Does this approach scale better to larger numbers of qubits than do designer molecules?
A lot of computer game effects - smoke, bloom, etc, are also post-processing effects, and care will need to be taken to make sure that these look correct in a 3D viewing environment.
Yep. The smoke, fire, and (more annoyingly) car glint in GTA: Vice City all render at screen depth. I imagine many postprocessing effects suffer similarly. The HUD for first-person shooters usually renders at screen depth (which is the best place for it to be), but the nVidia stereoscopic driver operates by rendering from two eyepoints equidistant from center, so using the crosshair is like lining up a gunsight to your nose. There was some kind of a workaround where the driver would attempt to render a sprite at the point where your sightline intersects something, but I didn't like it. I just got used to putting my target in between the two apparent crosshairs and letting fly. I imagined my eyes were learning to work together better this way, instead of the right one dominating all the time.
I played with shutter glasses for a while. My CRT would only go to 100Hz in a resolution I was willing to tolerate. They worked all right but I seemed to get some headachiness once in a while. Later on, I switched to a poor man's version of this. Two identical LCDs, polarized diagonally (verified by taking my glasses into the store; in fact, almost every LCD they had on display were polarized on this same axis) and a bit of transparent mirror that wasn't quite big enough but which I never got around to replacing. A particular setting on the stereoscopic driver provided for one eye to be sent to each monitor, one of them mirrored. I found it easier to set up the monitors side-by-side instead of top-to-top but the principle is the same. The passive linear-polarized 3d glasses were easier on the eyes than the old shutter pair.
Z.Y., an eX-Warrior, was given a coupon by his wife.
Wondering what it was for, he asked "VUTS R QPON?" (in his thick accent).
"MLK JIHG", came the answer, "to FEeD your Cute Baby Alligator."
Z.Y. had a pet, you see, and fed it from a milk jug... Perhaps I should have mentioned that at the beginning.
If you bought Terminator 2 with the assurance from Universal Pictures that you could in fact get a free copy of Terminator 1, only to take it to the store and be told that it would cost you $20.
That, and Universal Pictures neglected to mention that the $20 option applies only to the Terminator 2 Collectors Edition, which will cost you $130 more...
My first language was BASIC, but I wish it had been C. If I'd been a member of a captive audience (such as an enrichment program) when I first acquainted myself with C, I might not have to deal with "but this isn't like BASIC". I imagine that the inevitable "but this isn't like C" would have been much easier to cope with. BASIC dulled my senses during my formative years.:(
For a toy problem, I've always been partial to Towers of Hanoi. Input n, then output a sequence of moves that solves the n-disc Hanoi problem in some format (e.g., "1-3, 1-2, 3-2, 1,3, 2-1" and so on). Recursion is very confusing for newbies. This particular problem was one of the influences that helped me out early on.
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I doubt there's a single 30 line block of code in there that isn't violating someones patent.
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged"
Seems it applies equally well to source code.
I already claimed a 1 to infinite recursion of the patent patenting patenting .... patent.
Sorry buddy.
I, for one, would love to see some transfinite ordinal numbers in spurious patent disputes! If they're not going to go away, at least make them entertaining.
We might have seen a different reaction from Microsoft had it been Windows that the lawsuit claimed infringed on their patent.
...or NetMeeting.
I don't have a facebook account, so excuse my ignorance, but every time I read something like this I get confused:
Parker not only stopped mid-robbery to check his Facebook status
Shouldn't he know what his status is? I mean, he was the last one to change his status, right? Does facebook go around changing your status, and it's a game to log in and see what it got changed to?
Agreed. I misread it as "stopped mid-robbery to update his Facebook status". Hence, GP said what I was thinking!
I look at lots o' atoms.
Supposing everyone behaved this way, it wouldn't be long before you'd start seeing collisions. UID != UUID
Sure, I RTFA. Unfortunately, that means I don't also read Slashdot. Sorry :(
No wait, that's not right...
The IBM test-tube quantum computer from a while back used the spins of several atoms in a specially-crafted molecule as qubits. This one is "an integrated waveguide silica-on-silicon chip that guides four single-photon qubits through the computation". Does this approach scale better to larger numbers of qubits than do designer molecules?
"The all-new Windows 7! What's in the box? "
Disappointment.
The wow starts now. For reals this time.
The old now is then now. We're at now now.
I expected Heroin/Crack dispensers reading the headline.
Left disappointed.
Maybe not, but we had a Heroin/Crack addict reading the headline...
A lot of computer game effects - smoke, bloom, etc, are also post-processing effects, and care will need to be taken to make sure that these look correct in a 3D viewing environment.
Yep. The smoke, fire, and (more annoyingly) car glint in GTA: Vice City all render at screen depth. I imagine many postprocessing effects suffer similarly. The HUD for first-person shooters usually renders at screen depth (which is the best place for it to be), but the nVidia stereoscopic driver operates by rendering from two eyepoints equidistant from center, so using the crosshair is like lining up a gunsight to your nose. There was some kind of a workaround where the driver would attempt to render a sprite at the point where your sightline intersects something, but I didn't like it. I just got used to putting my target in between the two apparent crosshairs and letting fly. I imagined my eyes were learning to work together better this way, instead of the right one dominating all the time.
I played with shutter glasses for a while. My CRT would only go to 100Hz in a resolution I was willing to tolerate. They worked all right but I seemed to get some headachiness once in a while. Later on, I switched to a poor man's version of this. Two identical LCDs, polarized diagonally (verified by taking my glasses into the store; in fact, almost every LCD they had on display were polarized on this same axis) and a bit of transparent mirror that wasn't quite big enough but which I never got around to replacing. A particular setting on the stereoscopic driver provided for one eye to be sent to each monitor, one of them mirrored. I found it easier to set up the monitors side-by-side instead of top-to-top but the principle is the same. The passive linear-polarized 3d glasses were easier on the eyes than the old shutter pair.
If we're gonna start the AC vs. DC war again, I call dibs on tasering the elephant this time.
You mean "Westinghousing the elephant"?
I had no problem opening up a Norelco to solder in new NiC.
I meant "NiCd batteries."
I was about to ask to subscribe to your newsletter about network-enabled shavers.
Suddenly, I have a greater respect for Star Trek technobabble, as well as the simple analogies that often follow.
...like putting too much air in a balloon!
So the domain cartel is of equivalent evil to the diamond cartel?
Z.Y., an eX-Warrior, was given a coupon by his wife.
Wondering what it was for, he asked "VUTS R QPON?" (in his thick accent).
"MLK JIHG", came the answer, "to FEeD your Cute Baby Alligator."
Z.Y. had a pet, you see, and fed it from a milk jug... Perhaps I should have mentioned that at the beginning.
"Openly malicious" is really tricky - I'll grant you that.
Nah just check the evil bit. That's what RFC3514 is for!
it really *SUCKED* to wait in line for hours and hours to catch a ferry across the Hudson without any means to contact my family
Couldn't you have walked?
Signs point to "no".
How about "XD", which also serves as an emoticon expressing the joy of acquiring such superawesomeness?
If you bought Terminator 2 with the assurance from Universal Pictures that you could in fact get a free copy of Terminator 1, only to take it to the store and be told that it would cost you $20.
That, and Universal Pictures neglected to mention that the $20 option applies only to the Terminator 2 Collectors Edition, which will cost you $130 more...
How does a question get modded informative?
Was the question rhetorical?
That link is dead. Could repost a working link? I really need that application. I get so many viruses.
Me too! Plz send me teh codez
My first language was BASIC, but I wish it had been C. If I'd been a member of a captive audience (such as an enrichment program) when I first acquainted myself with C, I might not have to deal with "but this isn't like BASIC". I imagine that the inevitable "but this isn't like C" would have been much easier to cope with. BASIC dulled my senses during my formative years. :(
For a toy problem, I've always been partial to Towers of Hanoi. Input n, then output a sequence of moves that solves the n-disc Hanoi problem in some format (e.g., "1-3, 1-2, 3-2, 1,3, 2-1" and so on). Recursion is very confusing for newbies. This particular problem was one of the influences that helped me out early on.