Come on, you don't really think that he believes that. No, he is using a tactic that very common these days, he is making an outrageous claim that you have to waste time to disprove, to move the discussion away from the real issue and go behind you back.
I've seen this guy a few years back on Discovery Channel and I laughed my ass off.
"an invention is unpatentable if it would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art"
Anyone with minimal knowledge in mechanics and electronics can think about a radio powered by a hand crank. No one has had the nerve to patent it because it's OBVIOUS it can be done, and there is no RESEARCH needed, and also there IS NO MARKET for it.
I have inherited a torch with a hand crank made in USSR from my grandfather and he died in 1984.. and the god dam thing was old I've seen a radio that was powered by thermocouples placed on a gas lamp (and it was a commercial product)
So there were other people to try to power small devices from something else than a battery.
His only "merit" is that he "found" the market in African countries. In my opinion he is just a patent troll who wasn't able to make it.
> Maybe it's because there are basically ZERO jobs in most places for real hard-core CS.
A real hard-core CS would be able to do the jobs that are available faster and better...
Engineering is an art, and the colleges should promote people with talent for that art. Code monkeys do not need a college degree, they can survive with a 3 month introductory course in whatever programming language they need...
Does anyone know a good course for QA engineers ? It seems that TrueCompanion is searching for motivated individuals to join their team, and I'm thinking to apply for a position in their QA department..
I while back I was thinking about this, in terms of selling time.. versus selling work. Some of the people I work seem to regard employment as selling time, they come to work, sit on their ass for 8 hours and expect to get payed.. on the other hand, I usually get complaints because I finish what I have to do early and want to leave.. Mostly this is the management fault, because they fail to recognize the difference between being there... versus working there.
Actually canned foods are far easier to target accurately and throw at high velocity. I'll take canned good vs gold bricks at 50 feet any day. The guy with the can opener doesn't stand a chance against either of us.
nobody trows food... especially when there is nothing else to eat around there.. or if he trows it.. then the gold bricks still win;)
If you are trapped on an desert island with a suitcase full of gold, it won't seem that valuable compared to your neighbors crate of canned foods, or the guy with the can opener.
Actually, gold bricks can do more damage at impact than canned foods...
You paid 1250 for that laptop... and you are still on slashdot ?.. I thought slashdot is for nerds... only 2-3 thousand laptop owners should be allowed here...
You have a point, but even if a doctor doesn't know how exactly to perform brain surgery he is certainly able to describe the steps involved. I'm not against specialization, I'm against having a narrow view of your specialization.
As for the cost of learning C or any other language, the more languages you are familiar with, the easier is to learn a new one. The principles are the same..
And who will write the Java interpretor for the next generation of processors ?
Knowledge is power, knowing how the instructions look to the processor is helpful in many situations, being able to read 20 year old C code to implement something similar is also useful. You don't have to write in C or Assembly to make good use of that knowledge.
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Come on, you don't really think that he believes that. No, he is using a tactic that very common these days, he is making an outrageous claim that you have to waste time to disprove, to move the discussion away from the real issue and go behind you back.
I've seen this guy a few years back on Discovery Channel and I laughed my ass off.
"an invention is unpatentable if it would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art"
Anyone with minimal knowledge in mechanics and electronics can think about a radio powered by a hand crank. No one has had the nerve to patent it because it's OBVIOUS it can be done, and there is no RESEARCH needed, and also there IS NO MARKET for it.
I have inherited a torch with a hand crank made in USSR from my grandfather and he died in 1984 .. and the god dam thing was old
I've seen a radio that was powered by thermocouples placed on a gas lamp (and it was a commercial product)
So there were other people to try to power small devices from something else than a battery.
His only "merit" is that he "found" the market in African countries. In my opinion he is just a patent troll who wasn't able to make it.
and his brain is in a jar ?!?
Steps to reproduce:
1 - accelerate to 120mp/h
2 - turn hard left while applying hand brake
3 - check email
Expected result: list of new emails should be displayed
Actual results: big warning sign covers emails list
Reproducible: sometimes
> Maybe it's because there are basically ZERO jobs in most places for real hard-core CS.
A real hard-core CS would be able to do the jobs that are available faster and better ...
Engineering is an art, and the colleges should promote people with talent for that art. Code monkeys do not need a college degree, they can survive with a 3 month introductory course in whatever programming language they need ...
Does anyone know a good course for QA engineers ? It seems that TrueCompanion is searching for motivated individuals to join their team, and I'm thinking to apply for a position in their QA department ..
I while back I was thinking about this, in terms of selling time .. versus selling work. Some of the people I work seem to regard employment as selling time, they come to work, sit on their ass for 8 hours and expect to get payed .. on the other hand, I usually get complaints because I finish what I have to do early and want to leave .. Mostly this is the management fault, because they fail to recognize the difference between being there ... versus working there.
This is a recording from the training: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adHfECVdSBs
Actually canned foods are far easier to target accurately and throw at high velocity. I'll take canned good vs gold bricks at 50 feet any day. The guy with the can opener doesn't stand a chance against either of us.
nobody trows food ... especially when there is nothing else to eat around there .. or if he trows it .. then the gold bricks still win ;)
If you are trapped on an desert island with a suitcase full of gold, it won't seem that valuable compared to your neighbors crate of canned foods, or the guy with the can opener.
Actually, gold bricks can do more damage at impact than canned foods ...
You paid 1250 for that laptop ... and you are still on slashdot ? .. I thought slashdot is for nerds ... only 2-3 thousand laptop owners should be allowed here ...
You have a point, but even if a doctor doesn't know how exactly to perform brain surgery he is certainly able to describe the steps involved. I'm not against specialization, I'm against having a narrow view of your specialization.
As for the cost of learning C or any other language, the more languages you are familiar with, the easier is to learn a new one. The principles are the same ..
And who will write the Java interpretor for the next generation of processors ? Knowledge is power, knowing how the instructions look to the processor is helpful in many situations, being able to read 20 year old C code to implement something similar is also useful. You don't have to write in C or Assembly to make good use of that knowledge.