He's not alone, I am betting at least 10 companies producing clickers will make such submissions. We're using here a 2-year old clicker system by Hitachi, featuring both a standalone app and a PowerPoint plugin. I skimmed the patent and I did not see any radical difference in use from what our system does, except from the "different types of clicker devices" part, which might be interpreted as Office getting embedded drivers for the different brands of clickers available on the market, thus making custom clicker apps obsolete.
Could it be the case that Microsoft suddenly decided to control all third parties using Office plugins (Oracle, Matlab, Mathcad, Labview and a myriad others) in a way similar to the Apple App Store?
I faintly remember from school that "winning" means actually getting ownership and physical access to it, so according to Google's thin print he can't and didn't "win" anything, and probably won't in the future ("would you perhaps a like free Google account instead?").
I don't really get why he'd actually want that netbook in the first place, I am betting its EULA says "you are allowed to use it only within the USA border and only if you have an American passport".
I seriously doubt this incident would affect sales of the iPad in Denmark (or other Scandinavian countries in the future). But I sure bet the tabloid's sales will go up the roof... You can't beat human nature and Steve knows it better than anybody.
As a native Greek speaker I have to insist and correct your correction: Andros is just an island in Greece, while the correct term for (male) man is "andras" as c0lo above noted. Also, the correct (ancient) Greek term for woman is "gyni' and not "gyna"
It might be noteworthy in this context that the neutral term "antrhopos" derives from ancient Greek "ano"+"throskon" literally meaning "who is looking up", i.e. an animal that looks up and not down as most do.
I hate the extortion tacticts "if you want this, you have to see that". But I also hate double standards: when I declare I want to make the sacrifice, companies deny me access to content: Dear Internet, please please pretty please give me back my AOL radio. For so many years I was enjoying your music channels and although in Europe, I was listening to your ads with religious dedication.
In addition, if you really want to see that 1981 ad that reminds you your childhood, you have to *pay* for membership to special collector's sites.
Our attention span, eyeballs and clicks (I am gratefully eternal to/. because I heard here for the first time the term "attention economy") have become the new currency, more stable than the USD, more precious than gold.
The next step surely must be ads embedded in linux isos, freeware and shareware (maybe in security patches too?) - it's gonna be called Embedded Adware (remember you heard it here first).
Something tells me that this is going to end like the biofuel scam, where forests are vanishing to produce a more pollutant fuel than gasoline... Killing natural spices to produce gold in some industries' pockets.
they would *pay* this company to produce a Bill Gates figurine, complete with windows logos and win7phone.... But I'm afraid they aren't *that* clever...
Are PCMag true and mighty freedom warriors, or do they just want to make sure you are always able to 'preview' (and then delete of course) *their* (pirated) magazine copy instead of competitors' ?
If I were an advertiser, I would be more interested in the stats of such downloads than the stats of printed circulation.
As I see it, ANY information may (and will) lead to jury pool contamination, therefore, everything should be kept secret. This is one of the main reasons I have sworn to never join Facebook.
Why don't they just pass legislation to enforce signing papers when buying musical instruments, just like when buying guns? Guitar chords seem to be lethal weapons too.
I hope somebody has already warned Mr Hopper to never allow any local artist to perform "happy birthday" in his shop, since this will probably cost him his whole business.
I am glad you mentioned the existence of the alternative bayesian approach. I would like to argue in addition that both a) and b) need prior information, which are the demographics of the country in question.
Whatever interpretation of "probability" is used (frequentist or bayesian), a realistic answer has to depend on the specific prior information about both actual proportions of boys and girls in the specific country, and details on their weekday of births.
Assuming that the percentages are 50% boys, and that there are born equal numbers of boys per weekday is a non-problem for me - it's just an étude that does great disservice for the science of probability and statistics. I don't think health insurance works in real life by estimating the risks of, say, heart attack due to bad nutrition, starting with the premises of equal probabilities for males and females and equal probabilities for them eating healthy and junk food.
If I were asked to provide an answer, I'd look up the demographics and make a pure 'classical' frequentist estimate, based on the actual frequencies of American boys' births and their respective dates of birth. For a different county, the results are altogether different.
The budget/visitors metric is a meaningless financial one. If they don't sort websites according to the problems their lack will cause, they'll certainly need an army of clerks, mainly good ole telephone centres, to deal with all the minor requests a citizen might pose, like: - looking up legislation or organisational details of an institution (e.g. addresses, phone numbers) - finding white papers and other govt publications - tracking the correct person to address in order to find relevant information - finding the aforementioned person's email - etc etc
Perhaps the big plan is to outsource such website-provided services to India?
And why doesn't your argument apply to petitions? If it is theoretically possible to verify that a given voter has been bribed, then a "third party" could also verify whether e.g. Greenpeace petition signers were paid to do so.
Do you know of any country, in any continent, in any period of written history (maybe even before that) that this was not happening, namely the leaders/chiefs/kings/presidents not being able to "carry on doing what they liked", either in the open or in secret?
My "location" is in the public record - it's called "my street address". Since I can't hide my street address, all the other "private" location data are a minor detail.
They are not accused for not knowing, they are accused for speaking (and now for not speaking) publicly about their knowledge (or lack of it).
IANAL, but in theory, you can sue anyone you like for anything you like (even God Himself, have you seen the 2001 excellent movie 'The Man Who Sued God'?).
In order to understand statistical predictions, the audience must have specific probabilistic reasoning skills. Unfortunately, humans are by nature very poor probabilistic reasoners (the '70s studies by Kahneman & Tversky have established this) and probably they will never learn (pupils are especially resistant to relevant remedial teaching).
In addition, "scientists" are notoriously bad at explaining their own findings in plain english, precisely because english (or any other language) and science are incompatible. Therefore, you need either a government, a mass medium or a self-proclaimed science populariser to 'translate' science into 'plain english', which almost always leads to an epic fail.
Alas, precision, accuracy and truth will always remain lost in translation.
In many countries, this happens all the time. Let me describe the situation in mine (a third-world underdeveloped country, soon to exit the eurozone):
- Seismologists (academics and in research institutes) are to send their predictions in the form of top secret reports over secure lines directly to the government and to not disclose any of said predictions to the media, "to avoid mass hysteria".
- After a minor event, mass media speculate on the existence of such reports and try endlessly to get clues by interviewing seismologists.
- After a medium event, the media are furious because they were not allowed to see said reports and be credited for warning people for an imminent danger.
- After a major event, the media go berserk and accuse the government of hiding information that would have saved people's lives.
- Scientists having developed novel prediction methods (often recognised by peer-reviewed international journals in the field) are shunned by the local "orthodox" scientific community, often lose their academic positions and almost certainly their freedom of speech (not even mass media will deal with them).
- Inevitably, there are as many opinions about the imminence of a major event as there are universities in the country. Mass media always strive to bring opposite views into hot debate.
It's a complex world we are living in... and reason, science, common sense or the Law have very little to do with it.
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He's not alone, I am betting at least 10 companies producing clickers will make such submissions. We're using here a 2-year old clicker system by Hitachi, featuring both a standalone app and a PowerPoint plugin. I skimmed the patent and I did not see any radical difference in use from what our system does, except from the "different types of clicker devices" part, which might be interpreted as Office getting embedded drivers for the different brands of clickers available on the market, thus making custom clicker apps obsolete.
Could it be the case that Microsoft suddenly decided to control all third parties using Office plugins (Oracle, Matlab, Mathcad, Labview and a myriad others) in a way similar to the Apple App Store?
I faintly remember from school that "winning" means actually getting ownership and physical access to it, so according to Google's thin print he can't and didn't "win" anything, and probably won't in the future ("would you perhaps a like free Google account instead?").
I don't really get why he'd actually want that netbook in the first place, I am betting its EULA says "you are allowed to use it only within the USA border and only if you have an American passport".
Now let's see when Wikileaks publishes the other models taking into account solar activity.
I seriously doubt this incident would affect sales of the iPad in Denmark (or other Scandinavian countries in the future). But I sure bet the tabloid's sales will go up the roof... You can't beat human nature and Steve knows it better than anybody.
As a native Greek speaker I have to insist and correct your correction: Andros is just an island in Greece, while the correct term for (male) man is "andras" as c0lo above noted. Also, the correct (ancient) Greek term for woman is "gyni' and not "gyna"
It might be noteworthy in this context that the neutral term "antrhopos" derives from ancient Greek "ano"+"throskon" literally meaning "who is looking up", i.e. an animal that looks up and not down as most do.
I hate the extortion tacticts "if you want this, you have to see that". But I also hate double standards: when I declare I want to make the sacrifice, companies deny me access to content: Dear Internet, please please pretty please give me back my AOL radio. For so many years I was enjoying your music channels and although in Europe, I was listening to your ads with religious dedication.
In addition, if you really want to see that 1981 ad that reminds you your childhood, you have to *pay* for membership to special collector's sites.
Our attention span, eyeballs and clicks (I am gratefully eternal to /. because I heard here for the first time the term "attention economy") have become the new currency, more stable than the USD, more precious than gold.
The next step surely must be ads embedded in linux isos, freeware and shareware (maybe in security patches too?) - it's gonna be called Embedded Adware (remember you heard it here first).
Something tells me that this is going to end like the biofuel scam, where forests are vanishing to produce a more pollutant fuel than gasoline... Killing natural spices to produce gold in some industries' pockets.
they would *pay* this company to produce a Bill Gates figurine, complete with windows logos and win7phone.... But I'm afraid they aren't *that* clever...
I'd appreciate if a biologist /.er could shed some light to the following questions:
1. How many cells are there in 1 kg of bacteria?
2. How many cells are there in the human body?
3. By analogy, how many bytes can be stored in a human body?
4. How may bytes are stored in a human brain?
and optionally 5. How many cells and bytes are killed by an 1-hour dose of reading /. ?
Are PCMag true and mighty freedom warriors, or do they just want to make sure you are always able to 'preview' (and then delete of course) *their* (pirated) magazine copy instead of competitors' ?
If I were an advertiser, I would be more interested in the stats of such downloads than the stats of printed circulation.
As I see it, ANY information may (and will) lead to jury pool contamination, therefore, everything should be kept secret. This is one of the main reasons I have sworn to never join Facebook.
Thanks for bringing up Sumatra - do you happen to know any good pdf viewer for windows 98? (I tried Foxit 2.x but it's buggy as hell in win98).
Why don't they just pass legislation to enforce signing papers when buying musical instruments, just like when buying guns? Guitar chords seem to be lethal weapons too.
I hope somebody has already warned Mr Hopper to never allow any local artist to perform "happy birthday" in his shop, since this will probably cost him his whole business.
Love is seldom free - usually love is traded for love, food, jewelry etc in the context of a social interaction.
True, unselfish, more-free-than-beer love is to love your enemy. I think some guy once said that in fact, we should turn the other cheek.
I am glad you mentioned the existence of the alternative bayesian approach. I would like to argue in addition that both a) and b) need prior information, which are the demographics of the country in question.
Whatever interpretation of "probability" is used (frequentist or bayesian), a realistic answer has to depend on the specific prior information about both actual proportions of boys and girls in the specific country, and details on their weekday of births.
Assuming that the percentages are 50% boys, and that there are born equal numbers of boys per weekday is a non-problem for me - it's just an étude that does great disservice for the science of probability and statistics. I don't think health insurance works in real life by estimating the risks of, say, heart attack due to bad nutrition, starting with the premises of equal probabilities for males and females and equal probabilities for them eating healthy and junk food.
If I were asked to provide an answer, I'd look up the demographics and make a pure 'classical' frequentist estimate, based on the actual frequencies of American boys' births and their respective dates of birth. For a different county, the results are altogether different.
The budget/visitors metric is a meaningless financial one. If they don't sort websites according to the problems their lack will cause, they'll certainly need an army of clerks, mainly good ole telephone centres, to deal with all the minor requests a citizen might pose, like:
- looking up legislation or organisational details of an institution (e.g. addresses, phone numbers)
- finding white papers and other govt publications
- tracking the correct person to address in order to find relevant information
- finding the aforementioned person's email
- etc etc
Perhaps the big plan is to outsource such website-provided services to India?
And why doesn't your argument apply to petitions? If it is theoretically possible to verify that a given voter has been bribed, then a "third party" could also verify whether e.g. Greenpeace petition signers were paid to do so.
Do you know of any country, in any continent, in any period of written history (maybe even before that) that this was not happening, namely the leaders/chiefs/kings/presidents not being able to "carry on doing what they liked", either in the open or in secret?
My "location" is in the public record - it's called "my street address". Since I can't hide my street address, all the other "private" location data are a minor detail.
If the Internet is contained in the $Holy_Book, it is redundant,therefore useless.
If it is not, it's not only useless, but very dangerous.
Can this thing can just allow nicotine and perform tar garbage collection?
They are not accused for not knowing, they are accused for speaking (and now for not speaking) publicly about their knowledge (or lack of it).
IANAL, but in theory, you can sue anyone you like for anything you like (even God Himself, have you seen the 2001 excellent movie 'The Man Who Sued God'?).
This is not funny but very insightful.
In order to understand statistical predictions, the audience must have specific probabilistic reasoning skills. Unfortunately, humans are by nature very poor probabilistic reasoners (the '70s studies by Kahneman & Tversky have established this) and probably they will never learn (pupils are especially resistant to relevant remedial teaching).
In addition, "scientists" are notoriously bad at explaining their own findings in plain english, precisely because english (or any other language) and science are incompatible. Therefore, you need either a government, a mass medium or a self-proclaimed science populariser to 'translate' science into 'plain english', which almost always leads to an epic fail.
Alas, precision, accuracy and truth will always remain lost in translation.
In many countries, this happens all the time. Let me describe the situation in mine (a third-world underdeveloped country, soon to exit the eurozone):
- Seismologists (academics and in research institutes) are to send their predictions in the form of top secret reports over secure lines directly to the government and to not disclose any of said predictions to the media, "to avoid mass hysteria".
- After a minor event, mass media speculate on the existence of such reports and try endlessly to get clues by interviewing seismologists.
- After a medium event, the media are furious because they were not allowed to see said reports and be credited for warning people for an imminent danger.
- After a major event, the media go berserk and accuse the government of hiding information that would have saved people's lives.
- Scientists having developed novel prediction methods (often recognised by peer-reviewed international journals in the field) are shunned by the local "orthodox" scientific community, often lose their academic positions and almost certainly their freedom of speech (not even mass media will deal with them).
- Inevitably, there are as many opinions about the imminence of a major event as there are universities in the country. Mass media always strive to bring opposite views into hot debate.
It's a complex world we are living in... and reason, science, common sense or the Law have very little to do with it.