I didn't know IBM trade secrets had a shelf life of 365 days. Are the added preservatives healthy? More seriously, with a company the size of IBM... he might as well just take a one year vacation because everyone in IT is a competitor to them in some market or another. This guy will probably do just that too, since the cost of litigation is so expensive. So what IBM has effectively done then is snub Apple, at the expense of this guy's career. How very mature of them.
We've had that in IT for awhile now. Just go to your UNIX sysadmin and start reading the features list for Windows Vista-- Instant holy war. So philosophy in IT would actually be an improvement. ^_^ (grinning, ducking, running)
Maybe some people like their cell phones to make phone calls without needing a reboot every few days, or being loaded up with a gigabyte of software in memory who's only purpose is to look in the mirror and say "Who's a pretty girl? I'm a pretty girl! Who's a pretty girl..."
"corporate phone personality", eh? So now my phone will be anal-retentive, calls will take 3-5 days before succeeding, and it'll come with this whiny voice asking me for the red stapler back? Will I have to ask permission to go to the bathroom too? This isn't what I signed up for when I became a geek. If I were the mother of these engineers, I'd force them to sing the entire set of all three High School Musical songs to them as punishment. And they would't be allowed to hangout with their friends in management anymore, because they're clearly a bad influence.
I read the entire article. Can I have my five minutes back please?
Summary of article:
Google Exec: We're going to open.... The box! People: Open what? Google Exec: The box! With... the wires, and blinky lights, and stuff in it! People: What's in the box? Google Exec: New and interesting things! People: O RLY? Google Exec: YA RLY! People:... Google Exec: Oh look, pretty shiny...
It's not autonomous... it's adding driving aids for a remote controller. Autonomous would imply that it's capable of functioning entirely on its own for (at least) extended periods without requiring operator intervention. The article implies that an operator will still be performing some navigational and control tasks at regular intervals... Like a predator drone. I can't find the article on the recent DARPA robot challenge or I'd link it here, but there's obvious parallels.
People seem to forget the effects industrialization have had on us as a society. Not even a hundred years ago, time was something only the wealthy cared about. The rest of us got up with the sun, and went inside when it went down. Until the industrial revolution, this worked fine -- there was less work to do in the winter anyway. This is how nature in general has worked for thousands of years -- by the motions of the sun.
Daylight Saving Time might have been implimented to save some money, but the truth is that it's more valuable psychologically because it keeps us all closer to the natural rhythm of the Earth. But even now drugs are being rolled out so that humans can go without sleep for days or weeks at a time, work at night and sleep during the day, and many other ways of keeping the machinery rolling. At this rate, in another 30 years, I doubt daylight savings time will mean anything at all... Because we'll work around the clock, slaves to the machinery.
Most of what I've read about so-called natural immunity isn't really immunity per-se. People with immunity still carry the HIV virus; It just doesn't turn into AIDS for a long time, but in a lot of cases, eventually it overcomes the immunity. Here's an article on one such study [BBC].
This kind of behavior is the lawyer equivalent of turning the lights off while someone else is in the bathroom. They probably left the toilet seat up too. Grr. Argh... wet socks.
I can't say I've ever been in a biolab, but the idea of someone working in one, with their hands in a sealed box manipulating god-only-knows-what... and then trying to talk/use a computer at the same time give me the hebejebees. I can think of at least four hollywood horror movies that started with similar premises. Sometimes a simple low-tech solution really is the best... and it saves on zombie attacks.
Yes, software exists. But most likely unless the program only performs simple operations with dialog boxes and can function with only limited keyboard input, you will probably find it inadequate or klunky, even if the speech recognition is perfect (it never is). Instead of asking whether speech synthesis software is right for you, the better question would be is your software a good fit for speech synthesis?
> that's like me going to a store with 100 tacos getting to the front and saying "wow that's to much for my blood" then getting out of line watching 100 other people go through the line and once they are out of tacos going "Hey wait a minute i don't think its fair i didn't get a taco."
And with these words you epitomized the history of government aid.
I live just outside Minneapolis, and I can't really blame them. Nobody up here thinks much of Monticello... Most minnesotans couldn't even find it on a map. That said, how is this "unfair competition"? They had their chance and they biffed it. They might have something to say if the city won't give them easement to lay their own fiber, at their own expense... But I'll lay odds that what they really want is access to the city's fiber network without paying for it. Good luck with that!
Just that it's "proprietary". I don't get how people think that because something's proprietary that automatically makes it bad. All proprietary means is that it's owned by someone. JAR is a specification, owned by Sun, and as such it is proprietary -- however well-understood and documented it is. Shouldn't the discussion be on how well the format performs relative to business cost, since that is the target use?
For some tasks these types of interfaces are very well-suited. Virtual surgery comes to mind as one example. Another might be the manipulation of objects in 3D remotely, such as on a battlefield in order to remotely disarm IEDs, where the feel of texture and a natural interface would be important. Why does everybody think that an input device is crap if it doesn't give them an edge in [insert favorite video game here]? I use a trackball at work due to RSI, and it works very well for long hours at a terminal without fatiguing my wrists. Maybe my "frag count" won't very high with this setup, but that's not why it's there.
How much longer will we be using keyboards and mice for gaming? Well, until you can shoot me faster than I can flick my wrist and waste you of course. And the camera support will not be added to games for a very simple reason: You don't want to see what other gamers look like in front of their PCs. Really, you don't.
The same way you find regular programmers. Just ask them to document their code and have in the contract that the work done is work for hire. When the job is completed, you own the copyright. At that point, release it under the open source license of your choice. For details, consult the GNU website on assignment of copyright.
Yes, I suppose Microsoft might embrace open source. Of course, our politicians might lower taxes too. But Microsoft, like politicians, have a long history of saying one thing and doing another. That, and I'm pretty sure Balmer knows that if he mentions open source he'll get a free plug on Slashdot and on other media sites where highly technical people frequent. From a marketing standpoint, it makes sense to hint at open source as much as possible. From a legal and business standpoint, it's more likely he'll dance around on the stage in a Gir suit while singing the doom song.
Yes, but those signals aren't occupying the so-called whitespaces. That's a DTV signal. If you want to put MPEG-2 high power transmissions out... get a license and use the already allocated spaces. And because they will be using different frequencies, no interference regardless of signal strength provided you properly design your RF front-end and aren't camped directly under the very high power transmitter with the yellow warning signs saying "Please stay away from me or zappy badness awaits you."
"The hinternet can even be connected to the Internet and used for "Web surfing", although because of the FCC regulations on permitted content, this is rarely done."
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I didn't know IBM trade secrets had a shelf life of 365 days. Are the added preservatives healthy? More seriously, with a company the size of IBM... he might as well just take a one year vacation because everyone in IT is a competitor to them in some market or another. This guy will probably do just that too, since the cost of litigation is so expensive. So what IBM has effectively done then is snub Apple, at the expense of this guy's career. How very mature of them.
We've had that in IT for awhile now. Just go to your UNIX sysadmin and start reading the features list for Windows Vista-- Instant holy war. So philosophy in IT would actually be an improvement. ^_^ (grinning, ducking, running)
Maybe some people like their cell phones to make phone calls without needing a reboot every few days, or being loaded up with a gigabyte of software in memory who's only purpose is to look in the mirror and say "Who's a pretty girl? I'm a pretty girl! Who's a pretty girl..."
"corporate phone personality", eh? So now my phone will be anal-retentive, calls will take 3-5 days before succeeding, and it'll come with this whiny voice asking me for the red stapler back? Will I have to ask permission to go to the bathroom too? This isn't what I signed up for when I became a geek. If I were the mother of these engineers, I'd force them to sing the entire set of all three High School Musical songs to them as punishment. And they would't be allowed to hangout with their friends in management anymore, because they're clearly a bad influence.
I read the entire article. Can I have my five minutes back please?
Summary of article:
Google Exec: We're going to open.... The box! ...
People: Open what?
Google Exec: The box! With... the wires, and blinky lights, and stuff in it!
People: What's in the box?
Google Exec: New and interesting things!
People: O RLY?
Google Exec: YA RLY!
People:
Google Exec: Oh look, pretty shiny...
It's not autonomous... it's adding driving aids for a remote controller. Autonomous would imply that it's capable of functioning entirely on its own for (at least) extended periods without requiring operator intervention. The article implies that an operator will still be performing some navigational and control tasks at regular intervals... Like a predator drone. I can't find the article on the recent DARPA robot challenge or I'd link it here, but there's obvious parallels.
People seem to forget the effects industrialization have had on us as a society. Not even a hundred years ago, time was something only the wealthy cared about. The rest of us got up with the sun, and went inside when it went down. Until the industrial revolution, this worked fine -- there was less work to do in the winter anyway. This is how nature in general has worked for thousands of years -- by the motions of the sun.
Daylight Saving Time might have been implimented to save some money, but the truth is that it's more valuable psychologically because it keeps us all closer to the natural rhythm of the Earth. But even now drugs are being rolled out so that humans can go without sleep for days or weeks at a time, work at night and sleep during the day, and many other ways of keeping the machinery rolling. At this rate, in another 30 years, I doubt daylight savings time will mean anything at all... Because we'll work around the clock, slaves to the machinery.
And we'll call it progress.
Most of what I've read about so-called natural immunity isn't really immunity per-se. People with immunity still carry the HIV virus; It just doesn't turn into AIDS for a long time, but in a lot of cases, eventually it overcomes the immunity. Here's an article on one such study [BBC].
This kind of behavior is the lawyer equivalent of turning the lights off while someone else is in the bathroom. They probably left the toilet seat up too. Grr. Argh... wet socks.
Yes, but like most geeks... he wants to do everything himself. God forbid a man ask for help...
I can't say I've ever been in a biolab, but the idea of someone working in one, with their hands in a sealed box manipulating god-only-knows-what... and then trying to talk/use a computer at the same time give me the hebejebees. I can think of at least four hollywood horror movies that started with similar premises. Sometimes a simple low-tech solution really is the best... and it saves on zombie attacks.
Yes, software exists. But most likely unless the program only performs simple operations with dialog boxes and can function with only limited keyboard input, you will probably find it inadequate or klunky, even if the speech recognition is perfect (it never is). Instead of asking whether speech synthesis software is right for you, the better question would be is your software a good fit for speech synthesis?
Yes. Competition is bad... the intertubes could become clogged. :( You should repost this comment on the root thread.
> that's like me going to a store with 100 tacos getting to the front and saying "wow that's to much for my blood" then getting out of line watching 100 other people go through the line and once they are out of tacos going "Hey wait a minute i don't think its fair i didn't get a taco."
And with these words you epitomized the history of government aid.
I live just outside Minneapolis, and I can't really blame them. Nobody up here thinks much of Monticello... Most minnesotans couldn't even find it on a map. That said, how is this "unfair competition"? They had their chance and they biffed it. They might have something to say if the city won't give them easement to lay their own fiber, at their own expense... But I'll lay odds that what they really want is access to the city's fiber network without paying for it. Good luck with that!
Just that it's "proprietary". I don't get how people think that because something's proprietary that automatically makes it bad. All proprietary means is that it's owned by someone. JAR is a specification, owned by Sun, and as such it is proprietary -- however well-understood and documented it is. Shouldn't the discussion be on how well the format performs relative to business cost, since that is the target use?
"It is no longer an acceptable business practice to have silos of office document data stored in proprietary formats."
No, but it's still perfectly acceptable to have executable code stored in "jars", right Sun? -_-
For some tasks these types of interfaces are very well-suited. Virtual surgery comes to mind as one example. Another might be the manipulation of objects in 3D remotely, such as on a battlefield in order to remotely disarm IEDs, where the feel of texture and a natural interface would be important. Why does everybody think that an input device is crap if it doesn't give them an edge in [insert favorite video game here]? I use a trackball at work due to RSI, and it works very well for long hours at a terminal without fatiguing my wrists. Maybe my "frag count" won't very high with this setup, but that's not why it's there.
How much longer will we be using keyboards and mice for gaming? Well, until you can shoot me faster than I can flick my wrist and waste you of course. And the camera support will not be added to games for a very simple reason: You don't want to see what other gamers look like in front of their PCs. Really, you don't.
True. But consider the target audience. -_-
That's a bit machiavellian of them.
The same way you find regular programmers. Just ask them to document their code and have in the contract that the work done is work for hire. When the job is completed, you own the copyright. At that point, release it under the open source license of your choice. For details, consult the GNU website on assignment of copyright.
Yes, I suppose Microsoft might embrace open source. Of course, our politicians might lower taxes too. But Microsoft, like politicians, have a long history of saying one thing and doing another. That, and I'm pretty sure Balmer knows that if he mentions open source he'll get a free plug on Slashdot and on other media sites where highly technical people frequent. From a marketing standpoint, it makes sense to hint at open source as much as possible. From a legal and business standpoint, it's more likely he'll dance around on the stage in a Gir suit while singing the doom song.
Yes, but those signals aren't occupying the so-called whitespaces. That's a DTV signal. If you want to put MPEG-2 high power transmissions out... get a license and use the already allocated spaces. And because they will be using different frequencies, no interference regardless of signal strength provided you properly design your RF front-end and aren't camped directly under the very high power transmitter with the yellow warning signs saying "Please stay away from me or zappy badness awaits you."
From the section entitled "What can it do?" --
"The hinternet can even be connected to the Internet and used for "Web surfing", although because of the FCC regulations on permitted content, this is rarely done."