Please, please, why can't they just use lisp? I'd pay extra for a tablet optimized for lisp. It's just so clean and expressive, and if people wanted they could build they're own complicated DSL's and frameworks on top of it.
Actually i'm willing to pay top-dollar for ANY of todays tablets that can run an optimized Lisp(common lisp preferred), any suggestions?
Lisps and DSLs seem like they would go together well.
I'm sorry, but Chinese people as a whole totally lack imagination. It comes from their culture. They are static, all the wisdom worth knowing was perfected hundreds of years ago by much wiser and sober men than live today. Lots of good parts to their culture, the family bonds for one. Families stick together, for better or for worse. It really saddens me to view America from afar and see how badly families with children are regarded among the overeducated classes. But the lack of creativity is real. Individual Chinese may display magnificent qualities. I've known a few who were just outstanding. But as a whole, they always go back to that "someone else already did this, and better, so let's copy them" attitude inherited from the past.
I've actually known people who wanted to open a business, but despaired as they couldn't find anything worthy of copying. My attitude of "do what you know, whatever it is, and do it better than anyone else" is apparently Western in origin, and too foreign to understand.
You seem to have the Chinese and Japanese confused.
Give a mid-entry level programmer an accelerometer, an SDK for it, and 2 days (on and off) and watch them come up with the same solution as this patent.
Lots of programmers had SDKs for digital devices/phones/mp3 players, plenty of time, and there certainly isn't a lack of accelerometers in the last generation or so. Why did nobody do this until Apple did? Maybe it wasn't so obvious.
Oh come on. You change the type of sensor used and that's supposed to make it patentable?!?!
Lame...
Actually, that's exactly how patents are supposed to work. This is a method for detecting and changing screen orientation that Apple patented. It's not the only method, as shown by prior methods and different companies.
Apple was not the first. Many "text messaging" non smart phones that had slide out keyboards would flip between portait and landscape when you opened the keyboard.
Again, that's not what Apple patented. Changing orientation when a physical switch/keyboard is closed is not the patent we're talking about here.
be standing up and crying foul?
MSFT is suing largely over patents that have nothing to do with the Linux kernel, but rather the software on top of it, much of which is closed and/or licensed by Google. It's not as if these OEMs are FOSS contributors who do valuable work then contribute it back to the open source community.
If it were the icons Apple was unhappy about, they'd be suing Google, because that's a function of Android. Rather, Apple's beef is with the bezel of certain Samsung phones looking remarkably like earlier iPhones. And in my opinion, they do look remarkably similar, with minor differences in things like the home button
I don't own an Android phone, but looking at the photos of the Samsung phones and stock Android, Samsung clearly changed several of the icons and interface elements to mimic the iPhone in ways that Google seemed to have intentionally avoided. That's aside from the obvious hardware similarities that other Android phones do not share.
Dear lord, stop. I worked with a lot of MDs who said that to me. Stop doing it. Stick to proper medical care.
Do you know why IDC9 is such a mess? because it had a bunch of "Being an MD, and part-time software developer," involved in its creation.
I know I know, you know what you are doing, those other MDs and part time Software developers don't.
Well, somebody has to design the software that we use, and most of the nightmares in EMR have to do with the people making the program not having a clue as to how it's actually used. There are those of us who are both physicians and have enough coding experience that can make that situation better. But according to you, we should just let laypeople design medical software. Sure, that makes perfect sense.
You say that, but having this level of granularity is actually a much needed benefit. How many stories have gone on about the wrong leg being amputated, or the wrong side of a patient's body being operated on. Not to mention, when the doctor is in his office, he's not going to run over to the patient's room, or call them up to ask which finger is missing. There simply isn't time.
This is not "make work" stuff, this is adding needed clarification to the system.
This has nothing to do with eliminating medical errors. This coding is strictly for Medicare and Medicaid billing purposes. It's a shit-ton of extra work so the government can get even bigger.
Weapons aren't legal in most of the civilized world... Illegal possession of firearms gets you at least a year behind bars in my country... An illegal knife (>= 2.7 Inches) gets you a week, and that's the minimum punishment...
My old German professor would be shocked to hear that his hunting rifle is illegal.
I think you would find Kohlberg's stages of moral development an interesting read. In essence, most people are at Stage 4, which essentially is "belief in authority". Unfortunately, there are as many Stage 2 "I'm just in it for myself" arseholes as there are Stage 5 and Stage 6 "Only the just laws should be obeyed" enlightened thinkers. We need more people to level up.
That's the first time I've seen the term "level up" used in terms of the stages of moral development. Funny as hell.
I read it as meaning what action the OP would take, not law enforcement. As in, "I would not normally consent to such a search without a warrant, except in extenuating circumstances, such as a mass murderer who recently escaped."
I've heard more screaming from pundits about how they will never be a contender than I've heard about any other company, but the Windows 7 phone wasn't half bad for a first try.
In what universe is Windows Phone 7 a "first try"?
So, neglectful parents are suing Apple because they can't be fucked with to watch what their children are doing?
How about this: don't give your kid the iTunes account password?
The point is THEY WEREN'T GIVING THEIR KIDS THE PASSWORD. They typed it in for them to "buy" a free app and then the kids bought things from within that app in the 15 minute window you can buy things without having to re-type the password.
I would VERY much prefer an option to disable that password caching altogether. When I buy something I want the device to require the password each and every time I spend money.
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Please, please, why can't they just use lisp? I'd pay extra for a tablet optimized for lisp. It's just so clean and expressive, and if people wanted they could build they're own complicated DSL's and frameworks on top of it.
Actually i'm willing to pay top-dollar for ANY of todays tablets that can run an optimized Lisp(common lisp preferred), any suggestions?
Lisps and DSLs seem like they would go together well.
Your entire screed is Fanboy nonsense. .....
The Revue may have bombed but the rest of the onslaught continues.
Who's the "fanboy" here?
I'm sorry, but Chinese people as a whole totally lack imagination. It comes from their culture. They are static, all the wisdom worth knowing was perfected hundreds of years ago by much wiser and sober men than live today. Lots of good parts to their culture, the family bonds for one. Families stick together, for better or for worse. It really saddens me to view America from afar and see how badly families with children are regarded among the overeducated classes. But the lack of creativity is real. Individual Chinese may display magnificent qualities. I've known a few who were just outstanding. But as a whole, they always go back to that "someone else already did this, and better, so let's copy them" attitude inherited from the past.
I've actually known people who wanted to open a business, but despaired as they couldn't find anything worthy of copying. My attitude of "do what you know, whatever it is, and do it better than anyone else" is apparently Western in origin, and too foreign to understand.
You seem to have the Chinese and Japanese confused.
Financially, no tech company in the world is doing better than Apple, no matter what brand of shiny they're selling.
Well done.
It's stored in bottles under pressure. As long as you like.
Not in your average primary care physician's office, it isn't.
Give a mid-entry level programmer an accelerometer, an SDK for it, and 2 days (on and off) and watch them come up with the same solution as this patent.
Lots of programmers had SDKs for digital devices/phones/mp3 players, plenty of time, and there certainly isn't a lack of accelerometers in the last generation or so. Why did nobody do this until Apple did? Maybe it wasn't so obvious.
Oh come on. You change the type of sensor used and that's supposed to make it patentable?!?!
Lame...
Actually, that's exactly how patents are supposed to work. This is a method for detecting and changing screen orientation that Apple patented. It's not the only method, as shown by prior methods and different companies.
Apple was not the first. Many "text messaging" non smart phones that had slide out keyboards would flip between portait and landscape when you opened the keyboard.
Again, that's not what Apple patented. Changing orientation when a physical switch/keyboard is closed is not the patent we're talking about here.
be standing up and crying foul? MSFT is suing largely over patents that have nothing to do with the Linux kernel, but rather the software on top of it, much of which is closed and/or licensed by Google. It's not as if these OEMs are FOSS contributors who do valuable work then contribute it back to the open source community.
One of these days you're going to realize that the world does NOT revolve around your mom's basement.
You remember incorrectly. I know it's an incredible task, but RTFA.
I don't own an Android phone, but looking at the photos of the Samsung phones and stock Android, Samsung clearly changed several of the icons and interface elements to mimic the iPhone in ways that Google seemed to have intentionally avoided. That's aside from the obvious hardware similarities that other Android phones do not share.
I don't think you understand what the word "plagiarism" means.
"Being an MD, and part-time software developer,"
Dear lord, stop. I worked with a lot of MDs who said that to me. Stop doing it. Stick to proper medical care.
Do you know why IDC9 is such a mess? because it had a bunch of "Being an MD, and part-time software developer," involved in its creation.
I know I know, you know what you are doing, those other MDs and part time Software developers don't.
Well, somebody has to design the software that we use, and most of the nightmares in EMR have to do with the people making the program not having a clue as to how it's actually used. There are those of us who are both physicians and have enough coding experience that can make that situation better. But according to you, we should just let laypeople design medical software. Sure, that makes perfect sense.
You say that, but having this level of granularity is actually a much needed benefit. How many stories have gone on about the wrong leg being amputated, or the wrong side of a patient's body being operated on. Not to mention, when the doctor is in his office, he's not going to run over to the patient's room, or call them up to ask which finger is missing. There simply isn't time.
This is not "make work" stuff, this is adding needed clarification to the system.
This has nothing to do with eliminating medical errors. This coding is strictly for Medicare and Medicaid billing purposes. It's a shit-ton of extra work so the government can get even bigger.
wish I had mod points today.
Weapons aren't legal in most of the civilized world... Illegal possession of firearms gets you at least a year behind bars in my country... An illegal knife (>= 2.7 Inches) gets you a week, and that's the minimum punishment...
My old German professor would be shocked to hear that his hunting rifle is illegal.
I think you would find Kohlberg's stages of moral development an interesting read. In essence, most people are at Stage 4, which essentially is "belief in authority". Unfortunately, there are as many Stage 2 "I'm just in it for myself" arseholes as there are Stage 5 and Stage 6 "Only the just laws should be obeyed" enlightened thinkers. We need more people to level up.
That's the first time I've seen the term "level up" used in terms of the stages of moral development. Funny as hell.
I read it as meaning what action the OP would take, not law enforcement. As in, "I would not normally consent to such a search without a warrant, except in extenuating circumstances, such as a mass murderer who recently escaped."
I've heard more screaming from pundits about how they will never be a contender than I've heard about any other company, but the Windows 7 phone wasn't half bad for a first try.
In what universe is Windows Phone 7 a "first try"?
Or to not use a cell phone that does that. but that's made difficult when it's done without telling you...
Or don't bring a cell device that you can be tracked by to such meetings if you wear tin foil hats all day. All cell devices track you.
I find that the only people who use the term "fanbois" are those that fall into that category. Similar to flagrant homophobes being in the closet...
Bullshit. If Google were doing this, Slashdot would be falling over itself praising it for innovation.
So, neglectful parents are suing Apple because they can't be fucked with to watch what their children are doing?
How about this: don't give your kid the iTunes account password?
The point is THEY WEREN'T GIVING THEIR KIDS THE PASSWORD. They typed it in for them to "buy" a free app and then the kids bought things from within that app in the 15 minute window you can buy things without having to re-type the password.
I would VERY much prefer an option to disable that password caching altogether. When I buy something I want the device to require the password each and every time I spend money.
That's already an option now.