OK, if you say so. But some (all) of that had to be un- and re-learnt with Vista and 7, not to mention Office 2007 so I wonder how significant it really is. I think it's more like that's the way most computers come out of the box and people learn to live with it. If cheapo Dell boxes came with Snow Leopard or Linux people would learn to live with that too.
As far as Trade Secret goes: Shazam's own Avery Wang published the ins and outs of the Shazam algorithm in Proceedings of the ACM back in 2006. The paper also mentions similar systems by Phillips and others that go back to 2001 and beyond. There's also a reference to a talk by Shazam's Avery Wang at an international conference in Baltimore in 2003. They've plastered their secret sauce for all the world to see for years, and now they fuck with this poor guy!
Ironically, the example in the ACM article was the Beatles song "Let it be". That's precisely what I would suggest Shazam does.
tools that better allow me to write portable apps that are not chained to an operating system, screen type and the like are going to become much more attractive.
Sounds very good to me but is that really what's happening? iPhone has its SDK, Android has its own SDK etc. etc. Sadly the newer platforms appear to be as much "walled gardens" as the old ones.
Good point. So maybe an important part the project should be a "lint" utility that reads some form of standardized blueprints and other specs and issues warnings when a "hipster-home" is in violation of local and national building codes, health regulations etc. and maybe even laws of physics?
Thank your lucky star it's an HTC and not an iPhone: I doubt the HTC management will insist you get shorter earlobes.
(As far as the combination of "Desire" and "drag your fingers in a certain pattern" in your pocket goes: I'm pretty sure there's a dirty joke somewhere in there...)
it's almost like a gasoline engine running in reverse!
Crap. Most people don't know how to parallel park any more much less going in reverse down the highway. May as well file this invention with personal jetpacks and flying cars.
Not so sure about that. If we were to turn to nature/evolution for clues about how to best gobble up a school of smaller animals brute force approaches (whales, whale sharks) seem to win over fucking with their heads (angler fish and such).
Dumb luck? People do win the lottery from time to time, which would be "pretty impressive" by the same token.
As far as the answer to the main question whether we can trust investment banks to make accurate predictions I'm with GP: "No". That's why it's called "speculation". But in fairness I would like to add "slightly better than predicting the world cup", since they supposedly have better data to use as input for their calculations in that instance.
You Sir, make a powerful argument. I propose that we all agree on a definition of a universal unit for mass based on your weight. Just don't be porking out now...
Nope, but I know a guy who ate 42 cinnamon buns at an all you can eat buffet. That's probably equivalent to going over the 250GB/month limit. And nobody batted an eye, in fact the restaurant owners made witty remarks about how good their cinnamon buns must be and brought in some more. Somehow I don't think a telco would react the same way.
Read once in a web usability design book that there are two types of users: The ones who are search oriented and the ones that are navigation oriented. Search oriented users use a search engine instead of the browsers navigation bar and the browsers back and forward buttons instead of the web site navigation and links. Navigation oriented users use the browsers navigation bar and the web sites navigation links.
Of course that's an oversimplification but if that's even remotely true (which I don't know if it is) the high frequency of back button use indicates that there are a lot of search oriented users out there. And if that's the case most web sites are designed poorly or plainly wrong from their usability perspective. What I mean is that in-site navigation is a heavy part of most web sites when it really shouldn't be. Instead web design should promote the use of in-site search and back button use.
Does that mean the "For Dummies" series is some of the deepest, most insightful stuff ever written? Or simply that Einstein ran with some really exceptional six year olds?
I think this is a cynical move to cut cost and appease shareholders, while at the same time creating a horde of half baked coders barely employable anywhere else.
Seriously, if you had the choice of hiring a guy with a college degree (not necessarily Ph. D. or CS) and Google experience and some guy with no degree who has turned out some semi-crappy online office tools for Zoho, which one would you take? Now say he worked for Microsoft instead of Google. Which one would you take? And so on down the company prestige line. At what point will the uneducated Zoho guy win over the educated guy from company X? I'd venture he'd be forever stuck competing for the worst paid jobs with the worst companies unless he goes back to school. Or he can look forward to a non-career at Zoho.
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So Apple has taken a play from Spinal Tap's playbook and use knobs that go to 11? The mind boggles.
Why not figure out if it's possible to shut these genes off in mice and work from there?
Because it's hard to find serial killing rapist mice?
OK, if you say so. But some (all) of that had to be un- and re-learnt with Vista and 7, not to mention Office 2007 so I wonder how significant it really is. I think it's more like that's the way most computers come out of the box and people learn to live with it. If cheapo Dell boxes came with Snow Leopard or Linux people would learn to live with that too.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from noise.
So those noise making things that we heard at the World Cup actually were a sign of intelligence?????
As far as Trade Secret goes: Shazam's own Avery Wang published the ins and outs of the Shazam algorithm in Proceedings of the ACM back in 2006. The paper also mentions similar systems by Phillips and others that go back to 2001 and beyond. There's also a reference to a talk by Shazam's Avery Wang at an international conference in Baltimore in 2003. They've plastered their secret sauce for all the world to see for years, and now they fuck with this poor guy!
Ironically, the example in the ACM article was the Beatles song "Let it be". That's precisely what I would suggest Shazam does.
cost != value
tools that better allow me to write portable apps that are not chained to an operating system, screen type and the like are going to become much more attractive.
Sounds very good to me but is that really what's happening? iPhone has its SDK, Android has its own SDK etc. etc. Sadly the newer platforms appear to be as much "walled gardens" as the old ones.
Good point. So maybe an important part the project should be a "lint" utility that reads some form of standardized blueprints and other specs and issues warnings when a "hipster-home" is in violation of local and national building codes, health regulations etc. and maybe even laws of physics?
(As far as the combination of "Desire" and "drag your fingers in a certain pattern" in your pocket goes: I'm pretty sure there's a dirty joke somewhere in there...)
In all fairness isn't this true of most manufacturer's products, not just Apple's? The price we pay for a bleeding edge.
But the easiest way of making a windows user envious is to use a mac
That's the easy one: BOOOOOOOOM!
it's almost like a gasoline engine running in reverse!
Crap. Most people don't know how to parallel park any more much less going in reverse down the highway. May as well file this invention with personal jetpacks and flying cars.
Not so sure about that. If we were to turn to nature/evolution for clues about how to best gobble up a school of smaller animals brute force approaches (whales, whale sharks) seem to win over fucking with their heads (angler fish and such).
Dumb luck? People do win the lottery from time to time, which would be "pretty impressive" by the same token.
As far as the answer to the main question whether we can trust investment banks to make accurate predictions I'm with GP: "No". That's why it's called "speculation". But in fairness I would like to add "slightly better than predicting the world cup", since they supposedly have better data to use as input for their calculations in that instance.
I can't see your foot. :-)
... a definition of kilogram that was abandoned in the 19th century! That was many, many, many dog-years ago, dude!
Not to mention your quaint definition of meter: the meter is actually defined in terms of the distance light travels in vacuum.
You Sir, make a powerful argument. I propose that we all agree on a definition of a universal unit for mass based on your weight. Just don't be porking out now...
Nope, but I know a guy who ate 42 cinnamon buns at an all you can eat buffet. That's probably equivalent to going over the 250GB/month limit. And nobody batted an eye, in fact the restaurant owners made witty remarks about how good their cinnamon buns must be and brought in some more. Somehow I don't think a telco would react the same way.
Yes, yes, yes, but don't we all wish we had one of those?
Read once in a web usability design book that there are two types of users: The ones who are search oriented and the ones that are navigation oriented. Search oriented users use a search engine instead of the browsers navigation bar and the browsers back and forward buttons instead of the web site navigation and links. Navigation oriented users use the browsers navigation bar and the web sites navigation links.
Of course that's an oversimplification but if that's even remotely true (which I don't know if it is) the high frequency of back button use indicates that there are a lot of search oriented users out there. And if that's the case most web sites are designed poorly or plainly wrong from their usability perspective. What I mean is that in-site navigation is a heavy part of most web sites when it really shouldn't be. Instead web design should promote the use of in-site search and back button use.
Does that mean the "For Dummies" series is some of the deepest, most insightful stuff ever written? Or simply that Einstein ran with some really exceptional six year olds?
I think this is a cynical move to cut cost and appease shareholders, while at the same time creating a horde of half baked coders barely employable anywhere else.
Seriously, if you had the choice of hiring a guy with a college degree (not necessarily Ph. D. or CS) and Google experience and some guy with no degree who has turned out some semi-crappy online office tools for Zoho, which one would you take? Now say he worked for Microsoft instead of Google. Which one would you take? And so on down the company prestige line. At what point will the uneducated Zoho guy win over the educated guy from company X? I'd venture he'd be forever stuck competing for the worst paid jobs with the worst companies unless he goes back to school. Or he can look forward to a non-career at Zoho.
How is that not exploitation?
cook the oranges and leave them with a light dusting of frost
Bam! You should be on food TV.
Hello. ICQ - the criminals choice. Where have you been, dude? :-)