If the program compiles, and then runs, then it sends me an alert (making loud grunting noises and such). So all I need to do is sit there and randomly code stuff I have no idea about, and keep trying until I hear the grunting noise. Then I'll know it's done, and release the beta version.
Basic maths not useful in real world? Lets see - How much paint do I need to cover a wall? Gallon of paint says it covers X square feet, wall is LxH, so multiply and divide (then add a bit extra for spills). I guess he also has someone to help with his taxes, and help evaluate investments. And never makes use of any engineered products. Sigh.
Here's a link with some sample grade 10 questions:
High school math
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house." -- R.A.H
so, why not have a spare generator on the roof. (not the coolant pump - the thingy making electricity for it). If your entire reactor is underwater, you're probably screwed anyways.
You do know, the rules about prior art don't magically vanish with first to file right? If something got published in a research paper, that will get cited as prior art, and IBM will have done little but enrich both patent attorneys and the patent office, and delayed useful patents (cause the examiner needed to find that paper) from being processed in a timely manner.
And it's not like apples don't grow on trees.
Seriously though, it's not like they are critical lifesaving pieces of tech. Why shouldn't apple be able to set it's prices to whatever they want?
I'm calling bullshit on this article.
I'm guessing the author has never heard of TED. Sadly, neither have most of the general population.
The ideas are still coming, but the masses don't care, if they don't fit in a 140 character tweet, or a 30 second youtube clip. (or an animated GIF)
Exactly. From the patent:
Some portable devices use one or more accelerometers to automatically adjust the orientation of the information on the screen. In these devices, information is displayed on the display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers.
For these devices, the user may occasionally want to override the orientation displayed based on the accelerometer data.
At present, such devices contain little, no, or confusing heuristics for ending the user override of the orientation displayed based on the accelerometer data.
They are patenting override of auto orientation it seems.
...will be rich. How much would you pay to be able to safely round trip your projects between the two formats? The only question is, when it appears in the Mac app store, will it be sold by Apple, merely made by Apple, or be a true third party app?
Um - didn't they cover this at the keynote - all the pictures you take, videos, etc, all sent to the cloud, and down to the rest of your devices...
You take video, then remove file from your device. show camera roll to officer, show that there is nothing there. Get home, and onto youtube/twitter...
This isn't going to get any harder for people to do.
Well, given that they have an alternate way to use their service (their translate element), how long do you think it's going to take someone to wrap that in a externally accessible api, that opens the code, and clicks the button for us, then processes the resulting text. Screen scraping has been around for a long, long time.
Slashdot Mirror
If the program compiles, and then runs, then it sends me an alert (making loud grunting noises and such). So all I need to do is sit there and randomly code stuff I have no idea about, and keep trying until I hear the grunting noise. Then I'll know it's done, and release the beta version.
Congratulations - you've invented Grad Students.
I'm thinking about westjet's app, air canada's and so on. Sigh. Why can't they just feed it through rot-13 a couple times?
Ah - The Zorg approach to things. Don't forget the people who maintain the roads that those materials are shipped over, and so on...
Larry Niven said it best. "Think of it as evolution in action."
Basic maths not useful in real world? Lets see - How much paint do I need to cover a wall? Gallon of paint says it covers X square feet, wall is LxH, so multiply and divide (then add a bit extra for spills). I guess he also has someone to help with his taxes, and help evaluate investments. And never makes use of any engineered products. Sigh.
Here's a link with some sample grade 10 questions: High school math
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house." -- R.A.H
Ass Ninja _is_ on the list - you just can't see it. (It is a Ninja after all.)
if it doubles your pulse it probably is harmful to mortals.
So much for going to the beach then. Or doing a decent amount of exercise. Or watching the beach-goers doing a decent amount of exercise...
Think of the Children. I'd pay not to have to see the average slashdotter naked.
I, for one, welcome our M-5 overlord.
so, why not have a spare generator on the roof. (not the coolant pump - the thingy making electricity for it). If your entire reactor is underwater, you're probably screwed anyways.
He's posting on Slashdot, so I'd go with "No."
You do know, the rules about prior art don't magically vanish with first to file right? If something got published in a research paper, that will get cited as prior art, and IBM will have done little but enrich both patent attorneys and the patent office, and delayed useful patents (cause the examiner needed to find that paper) from being processed in a timely manner.
Shiny. Want one. Sigh. Wife says "never gonna happen". Oh well.
Van Halen?
It's not the shipping. It's the redesign of the heat flow for units not intended originally to be used upside down.
And it's not like apples don't grow on trees. Seriously though, it's not like they are critical lifesaving pieces of tech. Why shouldn't apple be able to set it's prices to whatever they want?
I'm calling bullshit on this article. I'm guessing the author has never heard of TED. Sadly, neither have most of the general population. The ideas are still coming, but the masses don't care, if they don't fit in a 140 character tweet, or a 30 second youtube clip. (or an animated GIF)
It also depends on whom you've told, and how much you didn't bring with you, but left behind to be pillaged.
I can almost hear Don McLean in the background - very, very faintly...
Pigeons. Lots of Pigeons. Just sprinkle roof with bread crumbs, and get out of the way.
Exactly. From the patent: Some portable devices use one or more accelerometers to automatically adjust the orientation of the information on the screen. In these devices, information is displayed on the display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers. For these devices, the user may occasionally want to override the orientation displayed based on the accelerometer data. At present, such devices contain little, no, or confusing heuristics for ending the user override of the orientation displayed based on the accelerometer data. They are patenting override of auto orientation it seems.
...will be rich. How much would you pay to be able to safely round trip your projects between the two formats? The only question is, when it appears in the Mac app store, will it be sold by Apple, merely made by Apple, or be a true third party app?
Um - didn't they cover this at the keynote - all the pictures you take, videos, etc, all sent to the cloud, and down to the rest of your devices... You take video, then remove file from your device. show camera roll to officer, show that there is nothing there. Get home, and onto youtube/twitter... This isn't going to get any harder for people to do.
Seriously - it's what? $300? If you can't scrape up say, 1-2K$ to protect your name, logo etc, you've got a hobby, not a business.
Well, given that they have an alternate way to use their service (their translate element), how long do you think it's going to take someone to wrap that in a externally accessible api, that opens the code, and clicks the button for us, then processes the resulting text. Screen scraping has been around for a long, long time.